CONTENTS. 



Good Judges of Horses 92 



Superiority of Mares over Geldings 92 



Hereditary Defects 94 



TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THE HORSE. 



The Stable 95 



A Perfect Stable 98 



Tlie Horse's Food 99 



Nutritious Matter 102 



Milk of Brood Mares 104 



General Management 105 



Breaking Colts 107 



Acts of Cruelty 108 



The Nose Bag 109 



Watering Horses 110 



Of Farm Horses Ill 



DISEASES OF HORSES 



Congestion 112 



Apoplexy 113 



Stomach Staggers 114 



Congestions of other kinds 114 



"Liver 114 



Swelled Legs 114 



Fever 114 



Mucous Membrane 115 



Blain 115 



Barbs, Lampas Canker 115 



Poisons, Colic, Entanglement, Worms 116 



Respiratory Passages 117 



Chronic Cough, Thick Wind, Glanders 118 



Urinary and Genital Organs 118 



Inflammation of Bladder, etc 119 



Itchiness, Warts, Hard 119 



Diseases of the Eye 120 



" Brain 120 



Epilepsy, Palsy, Rabies 121 



Pleurisy 121 



Dropsy and Inflammation of the Heart 122 



Castration 122 



Opened Joint 123 



Spavin 123 



Windgalls, Thorough-pin, Blood Spavin 124 



Poll Evil, Abscess, Swangles, Farcy 125 



Surfeits, Mange, Hide-bound, Grease 126 



Splints, Sprains, Windgalls 127 



Ring-bone, Acute Founder, Pumiced Foot, Contracted Feet. . 128 



Navicular Joint Disease, Sand Crack 129 



False Quarter, Over-reach 129 



Quittor, Corns, Thrush, Canker 130 



SHOEING 



Clips, the Calkin 133 



The Bar Shoe, the Tip 134 



Leather Shoe, Horse Sandal 135 



