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The colt will not require any other food than the dam’s milk, and 
what grass it can eat, until the sixth month, when it should be weaned, 
for the mother’s sake, if she is again in foal ; and also on account of 
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the colt itself; for by this time not only will the milk have deteriorated 
in quality, but the stomach and bowels of the colt will have undergone 
a change, so that they will not be adapted for a milk diet, which would 
disarrange their natural functions, causing acid secretions, the formation 
of worms and other parasites, leading to an attack of inflammation, and a 
train of other bad symptoms, ultimately terminating in death. The coltbe- 
irig weaned, will require a liberal supply of some kind of grain and other 
food—I prefer oats and good meadow hay. As with the mare, I leave the 
quantity to the judgment of the individual, so much depending upon 
the size and temperament of the animal, and other circumstances. It 
should also have a halter put upon it every day, and be lead about for 
a few minutes ; and though the lesson be ever so short, it will make the 
eolt tractable and accustomed to being handled. It will now be a year 
old, and if a colt foal, should be castrated; but as this is so like his 
sire, and as good stallions are so much needed in this country, I will 
keep him for a stock horse, and continue the treatment, increasing gra¬ 
dually the quantity of grain, except in the summer, when the quantity 
and quality of the grass is very good, at which time it may be discon¬ 
tinued altogether. He will now be between three and four years old, 
and having had the dumb jockey on one or two hours a day for the last 
three months, and been backed occasionally, he will ride tolerably well, 
and be admired by every body. He will now, perhaps, be off his feed, 
with a slight cough and discharge from the nostrils, and an enlargement 
of the sublingual glands between the jaws—it is the strangles, or horse 
distemper ; but do not be alarmed, for a little judicious management 
will soon put all to rights again. He should be put on a cool diet, have 
administered to him from one to two drachms of aloes, his mouth washed 
out three our four times a day with the following gargle : Potassae 
nitras, four drachms; water, one quart, and a hot linseed poultice applied 
daily to his throat until it suppurates, when it should be carefully opened 
with a lancet, washed with warm water, and a small piece of lint inser¬ 
ted daily, to keep the wound open for a few days. A few weeks having 
elapsed, he may be broken for harness or saddle, as required, and 
worked lightly until five years old; when, having attained his full 
