HOUSES. 



Proportion required for a Farm" — Mares and Geldings — Colts — 

 Different Breeds — Suffolk — Berkshire — Lincoln — Clydesdale — 

 "Welsh — Choice of Brood Mare — Carelessness of Breeders — Best 

 time to Sell — Suffolk Carters sent to Australia — Treatment of 

 weaned Foal — Comparative Fortunes of Pigs— Horse-power re- 

 quisite according to the Soil — Condition of the Teams — Mr. 

 Pusey — Foul Stables— Open Yards — Turkish Grandee's Stud — 

 Iceland Horse — Food — Physicking — "Water — Mashes — Coat of 

 Horses — London Brewers' Teams — Food of Cavalry Horses during 

 the Peninsular "War — Treacle and Straw — Hay Chaff— Oat Hay 

 of Australia — Cistern in Stable — Kock Salt in Manger — Suc- 

 cession of Teams — Eoyal Show — Value of Horse-dung as Manure 

 — Breaking in of Colts — "Working Hours — Teams — Horse-hair 

 sold for Tobacco — Ingenious Groom — Restive Horses — Character 

 of Groom — Cordials— Tan- water for Bruises — Litter in the East 

 — Shetlands— England— Edinburgh— Length of Horses' Sleep. 



The due proportion of horse-power required on 

 farms of various sizes I have given elsewhere, in 

 " Memoranda of the Homestead." For shaft work 

 you should have geldings. It is cruel as hazardous 

 to put a mare heavy with foal in the shafts. 

 Mares are otherwise more enduring, can un- 

 doubtedly bear hunger, thirst, and fatigue, better 

 even than the entire male ; besides they fret them- 

 selves less. 



To help in the hurry of spring-time, there should 

 be always a strong colt or two coming on, bred, 



