When the foal is to be taken from the udder, he is either shut up in a loose house by himself, or turned to pasture; in either case his cry must not be heard by the dam. When within hearing, both become fretful, the one unwilling to work, and the other refusing to eat. Once 01 twice a day they rejoin each other for a short time, in order that the foa. may empty the udder, and not be suddenly deprived of its natural food. When the foal is removed all at once, as by death, the mare's udder should be stripped once or twice a day, for perhaps a week; but at no time need it be quite drained. Spare diet, harder work, or milk physic, will diminish the secretion of milk, and one or another should be employed, if the mare must give up nursing while her milk is abundant.

In connexion with foals, I will just observe here, though out of place, that the young animal should be well fed from the day he is born. A starved foal or colt is almost never well-made when he arrives at maturity. He is always, as stablemen say, a weed; and though bad shapes, such as light carcass and spare quarters, are not supposed to have any connexion with the feeding, I am well persuaded that a poor diet is a common cause of them.