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Show ATTENTION FOR YOUNG COLTS If Allowed to Become Stunted In First Nine Months It Never Attains Full Maximum Growth. In buying up cults about the neighborhood neigh-borhood we have found that a colt that baa been atunted durlni? the firm nine montha of ita life will never make the maximum amount of growth and that It will not attain the weight of another from the aame aire and dnm rained under more favorable eon-dltlona, eon-dltlona, aaya a writer In the Ilorae Ilreeder. The draft home la an animal ani-mal that matures early and makes one-half of iti growth before It la 12 montha of age. It la not unuaual for a draft colt to welch 1.200 pounds at 12 montha, and. Indeed, that la the aim of many breeders. The extra care and feed required to bring a colt up to tlila, weight amounts to little and Is far more than returned by the added weight attained at maturity. The young; rolt will begin to eat a small amount of grain when little more than a month of age. Hrnn and crushed outs make an excellent fc'd to begin with when the colt Is still with Its dam. There la a practice of allowing the rolt to run with Its dam at all times. Allowing the colt to suckle when the mare Is hot Is likely to cause bowel trouble and It Is almost entirely Impossible Im-possible to prevent this when the colt is running by the side of the mare. It Is expecting too much to ask a young colt to cover as many miles in a day as the older animal covers. The colt cannot make good gains under such rlrcumxtances. It gets gaunt and comes In at night with lagging bend and drooping spirits. The feed used should serve other purposes than to run off In following the mare. We leave the colts In the barn during the day, bringing the mares to the born at j noon for the colts to suckle. The marcn get so they do not worry at all whlli' working, and at the same time the colts can play about the barn and grow. |