. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 640 Reading-Course fur Farmers. with which you are breeding, or simply to market the greatest possible number of animals? If the object is to improve the strain, one should never attempt to breed a two-year-old filly. The practice in certain draft-horse producing countries, Great Britain for example, is to breed the draft fillies the spring they are
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 640 Reading-Course fur Farmers. with which you are breeding, or simply to market the greatest possible number of animals? If the object is to improve the strain, one should never attempt to breed a two-year-old filly. The practice in certain draft-horse producing countries, Great Britain for example, is to breed the draft fillies the spring they are two years old and allow them no work whatever that season. After weaning their foals, they are taken as three-year-olds and put to work, and not bred. Fig. 5.— Good type of general-purpose mare, weighing 1200 pounds. again until they are four years old. This system is worthy of adoption when one wishes to know the breeding qualities of his mare as early as possible, otherwise there is no advantage, as one will secure just as many colts if he waits till the mare is three years old and then breeds her. When draft horses are wanted simply for marketing, there is no reason why fillies cannot be bred at two years of age, provided they are mature, have been well grown, and their owner is willing to feed and care for them properly during their pregnancy. Nor is there any reason. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?]
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