In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 73 



lips and sets up suppuration. The antiseptic treatment of 

 carbolised oil is much better, as its healing qualities are 

 truly wonderful. If a horse has a wound of this class it 

 should have a six-dram purging ball given, its corn 

 stopped, and fed upon carrots, mash, swede, mangold, 

 and sweet hay. Corn would only set up inflammation 

 and be the forerunner of tetanus. Wounds treated with 

 carbolised oil often heal up fast, making too rapid a 

 growth of flesh, and it may be necessary to touch the 

 proud growth with lunar caustic. I never consider that 

 a fault, for after the wound is Med up with new flesh, a 

 touch with the caustic point causes the wound to 

 granulate, forming a skin, and consolidating the injured 

 part. 



THE CARRIAGE OR COACH HORSE 



Owes its origin to the Cleveland bays, great attention 

 being paid to breeding them in Yorkshire, Durham, and 

 Northumberland, many fine horses of this class being 

 also bred in Lincolnshire. The most useful are those 

 which are propagated by a cross of the Cleveland mare 

 and a thorough-bred horse. These have fine knee actions, 

 lift their feet high, which gives grandeur to their figure 

 and paces ; the head is generally well carried, with a 

 beautifully elevated crest, and when they are driven 

 without the bearing rein, they look a really noble horse. 

 Yet such is the force of folly and fashion that the 

 bearing rein — that foul implement of torture — is still 

 upon many a noble steed, and gentlemen will actually 

 tell us that it makes the horse look better. It is a relic 

 of a barbarous age, and the sooner it is placed in the 



