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Show WEANING THE FOAL Youngster Should Have a Supply of Feed Constantly Before Him It is generally recommended that tho young foal be weaned at the age of five, to six months. Beforo this tlmo the foal should have learned to eat grain with tho dam, nibbling from tho mother's supply. Ono of tho best authorities, in Henry's Hen-ry's Feeds and Feeding, states as follows: fol-lows: "Leavo tho colts In their boxes, box-es, two or three together, several days and havo tho boxes open upon a nice grass pasture. Let them run out nnd In, give them oats mixed with bran and sorghum cut fine, and In a few days more turn them out In the fields away from their dams, where thero aro plenty of grass and water and a largo trough" with feed In It constantly. constant-ly. They havo been In tho hoblt of taking their milk a great many times a day, and they need food just as often. Tho best way Is to keep plenty plen-ty of mixed food for them, using cracked corn and oats; also unthrash-ed unthrash-ed oats run through a cutter box, then, mixed with bran and water enough to moisten It and mako the bran adhere to tho oats." ' A fair allowance of grain under ono year Is from two to three pounds per 1 day. Nothing Is superior to bluo grass pasturo and oats. ' |