The foals are never allowed to follow their dams

The foals are never allowed to follow their dams in the field. At first they grieve a bit over this. Suou they learn to stay about the barn lots where they eat a little grass. At night they and their mothers are turned on good blue grass pasture. With this treatment the foals o!' working mares make bigger, stronger fellows than do the colts of idle mares running on pasture without grain. They have also the added advantage of being handled, well halter broken, and used to the grain at weaning time. Weaning time, which usually comes in October, is scarcely felt. The colt eats more oats and clover hay, all he will eat of both, with a little corn if he shows a tendency to get thin, and he comes through his first winter in fine fettle. As soon as blue grass pasture is good he is shifted to this and gets nothing else till cold weather comes. Here again he grows like the proverbial weed. There seems to be something about good bluegrass pasture that was particularly meant for draft colts, for they come up in the fall after the first snow, fat. broad rumped, and doep-ehested. Their second winter is a repetition of the first, except that they eat a bit more feed. They have the yards and fields in the day time, with corn, oats and clovcr night and morning, and an open shed for shelter. They are all haltered and handled a bit each winter to make sure they have not forgotten their iirst lessons. When three years old they are broken and worked. The geldings are all sold at from four to seven years of age. The mares are either kept for breeding purposes or sold at similar ages.