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 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 — Rock Salt in Manger — Succes- 

 sion of Teams — Royal 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 . 31 



PIGS. 



Yarrell's Description — Mr. Crisp — Prussian Trade — Different 

 Sorts : Essex, Yorkshire, Suffolk, Tarn worth, &c. — Pork during 

 the Peninsular War — Irish Pig — Pig's Dung as Manure — Modes 

 of fattening on Apples, Mast, Acorns, &c. — Food Cooked and 

 Raw — Peach Orchards — Mills and Breweries — Drayhorse — 

 Nettle Broth — Grease — Cotter's Pig — Stores — Damaged Rice 

 Cargoes — Milk -fed, Corn-fed, &c, Pork — Irish Bacon — West- 

 phalia Hams — Acorns as Food — Beans — Mangold-wurzel — Phy- 

 sicking a Pig — Bleeding — Porcine Dentition — Dr. Symonds — 

 The Pig superior to Poison — Flavour dependent on Food — 

 Relative Value of Black and White Pig — Clean Lair — How to 

 prevent Pigs rooting — Cinders as a Condiment — Young Pigs — 

 Brood Sows — Lying-in Sties— Weaning — Wild Sow — Profit of 

 Breeding — Age of Porcine Race— Curing Hams — Historic Influ- 

 ence of the Pig — A Porcine Racer— Time to purchase Porkers — 

 Access to Fresh Water essential ...... 48 



SHEEP. 



Exhibiting Females —Sheep Dogs — Sheep Call — Evenings in May 

 — Original type of Sheep — Corsican Moufflon — Welsh, Cotswold, 

 Southdown, Roman, Dartmoor, Radnor, Merino Breeds — Cots- 

 wold Sheep degenerate in Wales— Black Sheep — Sir Charles 

 Morgan— Spanish Shepherds— Shelter for Sheep— Straw Pens — 



