Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-22
AGRICULTURAL.
The Feed and Treatment of
Colts.
.Am.ri.an AnriclllInrisl.

ABssrjcGH AgyictIUTiJi
Colts should be kept growing from the
FIRST, and taught to est oats at an early
sge. When wesned ct FIVE or six months
old, the milk of q good Ayrshire COW for
six months longer would give the colt q
very good start Besides this, he should
have few quarts of oats daily, with =
plenty of good sweet earl y-cut hay, (clover,
timothy or red.top), with an occasional
feed of good straw. There should oe
rock salt accessible at al times, and good
running or spring water, aud occasional
feed OF carrots. This treatment, with good
warm quarters and plenty Of room for ex-
ercise, without being too much EXPOSED 10
the rigors of Northern winter, would give
the breeder a yesrling of which, pro-
vidiug his breeding is sll right, he need
not De ashamed, and an animal worth
much more than the average twoyear
olis, being both larger and finer. Oats
are q most excellent food for colts, as
they give muscle, size snd style. An &C,
csslonal feed of carrots in winter ia almost
essential to the animals health. AS O sub
stitute for Carro's, boiled Aaxseed is very
good; In lack Of either, Gu occasional bran
mash is almost indispensable, as the bow
els require to be gently open. When the
mare is worked or driven while sucking
the colt, great care should be used to pre-
vent it from sucking while the mare is
over warm from exertion. The mare may
be used, but should always fully cool of
before the colt is allowed to suck. The
cold should De handled at 9 very early age,
and taught while quite young that man is
it's master, but st the came time its friend.
The Young colt should be taught to like
and not fear his master, and be well halter
broken (if practically when but a few
weeks old; as q yoang colt we'll halter
broken, is much easier handled and cared
for than one that is not. He should be
taught to stand hitched BY The halter, in
or out of the stable while quite young. The
reason that the milk Of the Ayr
shire COW is recommended to be fed
to the mule colt, is that it is richer in
caseine and Done-forming material, than
that of most other breeds of COWS, though
any good milk will do. When the colt is
one year old, if he has been cared for as
recommended, be will be great fine tel-
low when grass has grown in the pasture
sufficiently to give him a good bite. A
good assure we'll watered and fenced, with |
plenty of good shade, and q small boz
placed two feet from the ground, with
wide covering two feet above to keep
out the rain, and in this box constant
supply of wood ashes and salt Zone
part sRlt to three psr.s of good clean wood
Bshes) is al that will be required until fall.
But tie eye of the owner should rest upon
him even then, IS often as practicable
When the autumn hss come, and the frosts
have killed the grass it is not policy to let
the colt remain out at pasture too late In
season. Many good coils have been kept
starving and shiveriug in the pasture so late
IS to get such c set back as to take near
IL halt the winter, with good care to get
them back again where they we're in Sep
.ember or October. When the colt is
brought into winter quarters for the second
Rinter, he should be provided with pad
lock. with a comfortable stable and a.