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figure of 2 years or sooner. Stericker recommends that colts be taken 
away from the company of fillies when rising two years of age. Accord¬ 
ing to Hooper, in Central Kentucky Farms the colts are separated from 
fillies in late summer; at the Cornell University the time is placed at 6 
months of age, and at the Hayfield Farm a little later or at the end of 6 
months. Four farms—the Longwood Farm, Thompsondale Farm, Selma 
Farm, and Chestnut Farms give the separation age just after weaning. 
At the Woodside Farm they are separated in January following foaling 
time and at the Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm in the same winter that 
they are foaled in spring. According to Cooley colts should be removed 
from the fillies when they reach the age of 8 to 10 months, while at the 
Michigan Agricultural College they are placed in a separate enclosure at 
the age of 10 months. The separation age at the Wisconsin University 
and Maplegrove Farm is at 10 to 12 months, and at the Irvinedale Farm 
in the latter part of March or fore part of April, when the weanlings are 
11 months old. Before they get to be a year old colts and fillies are 
separated at the Oaklawn Farm and Arngibbon Farm. However, the rule 
is to separate the colts from the fillies when they become yearlings, 
as evidenced by 21 farms, viz.: the Gregory Farm, Holbert Farms, J. H. 
Serven and; Son, Thos. Kiddoo Farm, Leslie Farms, Iowa State College, 
University of Missouri, Lefebure Sons’ Co., Lakewood Farm, University of 
Minnesota, Pentoila Stock Farm, University of Illinois, Gossard Breeding 
Estates, White Oak Stock Farm, Oakdale Farm, Hawthorn Farm, Long¬ 
view Stock Farm, G. Andrews & Son, Raboin Pioneer Homestead Farm, 
Ritchie Stock Farm, and Waddington Farm. 
Whether the weanlings should be mixed with mature horses or given 
separate lots, an overwhelming number of stud farms, 26 altogether, all 
agree in their practice: that the mature horses should be separated from 
the weanlings. The same practice is followed by Central Kentucky Farms. 
At the Hawthorn Farm even the weanlings themselves are kept separate, 
according to the different ages, and at the Michigan Agricultural College 
the 1 and 2-year-olds are placed together. Only at the Oakdale Farm 
and Maple Lawn Farm are the weanlings mixed with the mature horses, 
but at the latter stud they are kept separate at feeding time. 
That foals should be trained to lead from birth is the advice of the Le¬ 
febure Sons’ Co., and, similarly, Good says this may be done when foals 
are only a couple of days old. Hooper reports that in Central Kentucky 
Farms training the foals to lead starts when they are only from 3 weeks 
to 3 months of age. Hanmer advocates the starting date when 4 weeks 
old. At the Chestnut Farms they are taught to lead at 2 months of age, 
at the Arngibbon Farm at 2 or 3 months, at the Top Notch Farm and 
Woodside Farm, at 3 or 4 months, at the Hawthorn Farm at 5 months, 
at the Oaklawn Farm and Holbert Farms around 6 months, and at the 
Irvinedale Farm at 12 to 15 months. It is during the first winter that 
foals are started to lead in the University of Minnesota and Maple Lawn 
Farm, while at the University of Missouri training is made while nurs¬ 
ing. Just before the colts are weaned they are taught to lead at the Wad¬ 
dington Farm, but at the Hayfield Farm and Rookwood Farm this is done 
soon after weaning. The University of Illinois and Raboin Pioneer 
Homestead Farm follow the system of training foals to lead before wean¬ 
ing age, while the majority of those reporting—the Selma Farm, Long- 
wood Farm, Wisconsin University, Michigan Agricultural College, G. An¬ 
drews & Son, and Longview Sto-ck Farm—are inclined to institute the 
training at weaning time. Stericker believes in the same way. Cornell 
University starts their foals to lead as soon as possible before reaching a 
year old. The training age at the Maplegrove Farm, Lakewood Farm, 
and Pentoila Stock Farm comes when they are a-year-olds. At the Gos¬ 
sard Breeding Estates they make it a point to begin to lead their foals as 
soon as they are strong enough to be haltered. At the Ritchie Stock Farm, 
Gregory Farm, Leslie Farms, and Truman’s Pioneer Stud Farm colts are 
