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Show Hand-Rearing of Orphan Foals Is Difficult Job With the best of good fortune there are always a few orphan foals to be cared for every year, and their feeding feed-ing is a problem to those who have never attempted it on artificial food supplies. Hand-rearing Is not an easy task and involves close attention to details. Naturally cow's milk is the common substitute for the milk of the dam but It requires some slight modiflca tion. If possible choose a cow thai has calved recently and one whose milk Is not rich in butterfat. Dissolve about a tablespoonful of sugar preferably white sugai- in a little warm water. To this add three to five tablespoonfuls of lime water, and then a sufficient quantity of cow's milk to make a pint. Lime water not only serves to dilute the milk, but it also tends to correct digestive troubles.; trou-bles.; The amount to feed Is about one-quarter one-quarter to half a pint at each feeding at,' first The feeding periods should ba about one hour apart for the first few days. .vWhen a foal suckles It does so frequently, fre-quently, but It only takes a small amount at n time. |