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University of Wisconsin. “Foal is separated from dam and kept inside 
in a boxstall for three or four days, then turned out in a paddock.” 
University of Missouri. “Take them away from mares. Keep mare’s 
udder in good shape.” 
Woodside Farm. “Remove the mare and milk the mare intermit¬ 
tently.” 
University of Illinois. Foals are weaned when they are eating well. 
The mares are fed lightly before and after w r eaning. When the two are 
separated they are removed in such a place so as to be out of sight and 
hearing to each other. 
Lefebure Sons’ Co. The foals, a couple of them together, are taken 
away from their dams. The process is made gradual. 
Longview Stock Farm. Foals that are being weaned are shut in pad- 
docks, with oats, hay and water. 
Ritchie Stock Farm. “I let them suck the mare once a day for a week.” 
Waddington Farm. Simply separate them so that they cannot see nor 
hear each other.” 
Thos. Kiddoo Farm. “If they are eating, usually mares wean them 
alone.” 
Holbert Farms. “First half day away from mare, gradually longer— 
feed mare no grain. Milk her as necessary until dry.” 
Iowa State College. The mare is taken off altogether and the foals are 
placed together in a roomy place. It is pointed out that to keep the mare 
away from the hearing of the foal is the best practice. 
Michigan Agricultural College. “Mares are moved to another barn, 
where they do not see or hear colts, and mares always worked.” 
Purdue University. The colt is taught to eat before he is weaned, and 
then, when being separated, he is permitted to nurse the mare occasion¬ 
ally. 
Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm. “Simply taken from the mares, foals 
left in pasture and mares put in stalls.” 
Central Kentucky Farms. Here the system is simple. The mares are 
separated from their foals, but before the time comes the foals should have 
previously been trained to eat grain. The same holds true of the systems 
followed at the Lakewood Farm and Hayfield Farm. 
At the Arngibbon Farm, Cornell University and University of Minne¬ 
sota the foals are simply taken away from the dams, and the same is true 
at the Irvinedale Farm and Gossard Breeding Estates, but in the latter 
two the dams are dried up. 
2. Feeding and Handling 
The systems of feeding the grains to the weanlings may be considered 
under two captions, one in which the feeding is made at stated periods and 
the other at will. The breeding establishmnets following the system of 
keeping the grains in front of the colts at all times, or at will, are the 
Lakewood Farm, Thos. Kiddoo Farm, Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm, Ir¬ 
vinedale Farm, University of Minnesota, Longview Stock Farm, and 
Chestnut Farms. Of those adopting the method of feeding at stated 
periods are the Waddington Farm, Michigan Agricultural College, Pen- 
toila Stock Farm, Michigan Agricultural College, Pentoila Stock Farm, J. 
H. Serven & Son, Santa Anita Rancho, and University of Missouri, six in 
all, in which the grains are given twice daily; the Arngibbon Farm, Wis¬ 
consin University, University of Illinois, Selma Farm, Holbert Farms, 
Rookwood Farm, Iowa State College, Cornell University, and Maple Lawn 
Farm, or nine establishments, in which the feeding is made three times 
daily; and at the Hayfield Farm and Ritchie Stock Farm twice daily. At 
the Purdue University the weanlings get their grains also at regular 
periods, two or three times daily. 
Five breeding establishments report on feeding the weanlings oats, two 
of which—the Lefebure Sons’ Co., and Irvinedale Farm—use the rolled 
