VOLUMES ONE TO TWENTY-FIVE. 



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HORSE-RAKES. 



mates, 441 ; average cost, ih. ; expla- 

 nation of symbols and apparent dis- 

 crepancies, ib. ; table of annual cost of 

 food, 35 instances, 448 ; table of total 

 cost, work done, cost per acre, &c., 451 ; 

 instances of economical management, 

 Nos. lo, IG, and 17, ih. ; tillage not 

 most economical wliere horses have 

 the poorest ]<.ecp, 450 ; dei^reciation, 

 how calculated, 452 ; actual bills of 

 saddler, smith, and forrier at Whit- 

 iield, 453 ; record for 17 years of horses 

 and implements bought, and of bills, 

 ib. ; other estimates and records of 

 bills, 454 ; maintenance of implements, 

 455 ; allowance for, in Bayldon's ' Art 

 of Valuation' (Baker's edition), ib.; 

 Mr. Baker's system of horse-keeping 

 and tillage, estimate of cost for food, 

 &c., per annum, 460; Professor Wil- 

 son's suggestion on referring horse- 

 work of various kinds to a scientific 

 standard-power exerted at a given rate 

 of motion, 4G2 ; definition of horse- 

 power adapted to the plough, ib. ; the 

 efforts of the horse intermittent, ib. ; 

 total annual draught on Whitfield fiirm, 

 operations performed, and space tra- 

 versed, 4G3 ; table, the total estimated 

 in cwts. drawn one mile, 464. 



IIoRSE-RAKES, rcport on those shown at 

 the Great Exhibition (in 1851), by P. 

 Pusey, xii. 616. 



, those at the Lewes meeting (1852), 



xiii. 316. 



, those at Salisbury meeting (1857), 



xviii. 443. 



, those at the Leeds meeting (1861), 



xxii. 457. 



IIoRSE-SHOEiNG, ou (W. Miles), xviii. 270 ; 

 foot-lameness insidious but not casual, 

 271 ; early signs of navicular lameness, 

 272 ; " pointing," no trick, ib. ; how to 

 preserve the feet, 275 ; country smiths 

 not an obstinate or prejudiced race, ib. ; 

 illustration of then- willingness to learn, 

 277 ; hunters may be shod like other 

 horses, 278 ; 5 nails sufficient, 279 ; di- 

 rections for paring, 281 ; the frog, its 

 nature, 282 ; the shoe, its heating, 283 ; 

 shoes turned in the rough capable of 

 improvement in form and dimensions, 

 284; figure of convenient form of 

 chisel, ib. ; diagrams of horseshoes, 

 rounded, cut oft', and nailed on the 

 authors plan, 284, 285 ; the fuller gene- 

 rally too narrow, 286 ; the clip, ib. ; 

 situation of tlie nails, 288 ; fitting the 

 shoe, ib. ; advantage of bringing in 

 " the heels," ib. ; heating the shoe, 

 ib. ; back-holing, 289 ; nails ; their 



defects, 290 ; improvements suggested 

 in their form and quality, 291 ; danger 

 to the horse from the smith's dandyism, 

 ib. ; corns, their cause, and mode of 

 prevention (diagrams), 292-3 ; the 

 hind shoe, how to shape it and prevent 

 "forging," 295; raised heels, why ue- 

 necessary, 296 ; on removing shoes, 

 297 ; feet should be washed with warm 

 water, and rubbed dry, 298 ; cow-dung 

 recommended for stopfjing feet, ib. ; 

 recipe for making the cerate, or hoof- 

 dressiug, used iu the author's stables 

 ib. 



Horse-works (American) machine, xx. 

 117 ; comparative trial of English and 

 American systems (Amos), 130. 



HoRSFALL, T., on the management ot 

 dairy cattle, xvii. 260. 



, on dairy management, xviii. 150. 



HoRSLEY, John, statement of the situa- 

 tion of the labourers in the village of 

 Saxby, in the Lincolnshire Wolds, v. 

 282. • 



HosKYNs, C. Wren, on agricultural sta- 

 tistics, xvi. 554. >S'ee " Statistics." 



, on the geology of Warwickshire 



{note), xvii. 476. 



, his selection of samples of drainage- 

 water for analysis by J. T. Way, xvii. 

 137. 



, on ridge and furrow pasture, and a 



method of levelling it, xvii. 327. 



, report on the exhibition and trial of 



implements at the Salisbmy meeting, 

 xviii. 415. 



, remarks on education, and the diffi- 

 culty of legislating for the agricultural 

 classes {R.D.), xxv. 547. 



HorsE-BUiLDiNG in America (C. W. Eddy), 

 XX. 115. 



no-\T3, or hoven, in sheep (H. Cleave), i. 

 304. 



, in cattle, by J. B. Simonds, ix. 48. 



, by H. W. Keary, ix. 445. 



Howard, C, on the use of the hay-tedder 

 and horse-rake, xxiii. 53 ; substitutes 

 for beer in the hayfield, 57. 



, J., on autumn cultivation, B.D., 



xxv. 530. 



, J. and F., windlass for steam- 

 cultivation (J. A. Clarke), xx. 198. 



, their plough, cultivator, and tackle, 



xxiv. 369. 



, steam-cultivator at the Leeds meet- 

 ing (1861), report of the judges on, xxii. 

 462 ; award, 477. 



, steam-cultivator and plough at Far- 



niugham (1863;, xxiii. 400. 



, steam-ploughing apparatus at Wor- 

 cester (1863), xxiv. 480; awarded third 



