BARREL — BEANS 



to seat four persons inside and two on the coach-box. It is 

 hung on Elliptic or C. springs, and on the latter suspension 

 is one of the highest grade of park carriage when drawn 

 with two good horses. 



Barrel. — The body of a horse, extending from behind the 

 forearms to the loins. 



Barrenness in the mare may very possibly be overcome 

 by a comparatively simple operation which, however, ought 

 always to be entrusted to a professional man, from whom 

 advice should be obtained before a mare that fails to breed 

 is rejected as barren. It is true, moreover, that in some 

 cases a mare which proves barren to one horse will readily 

 throw foals to another, and the same remark applies to 

 stallions. (See Breeditig, Brood Mare, Stallion, Sterility.) 



Bar-shoe is a shoe with a band of iron connecting the 

 heels of the horse's hoof. (See Corns, Sand Cracks, Shoeing.) 



Bars. — {a) Of the hoof, are the raised parts of the wall 

 which run parallel to the sides of the frog. (See Foot, Hoofs.) 



{b) Of the mouth, are the gaps in the lower gums, between 

 the front and back teeth, on which the bit rests. (See 

 Mouth, Tush.) 



(c) Of a bit. The rings in the leg of the bit to which 

 the reins are attached. (See Bits.) 



Baulking. — See Jibbing. 



Beaning a Horse. — An old trick of horse copers who, 

 when an animal is lame on one front foot, place a small piece 

 of metal or sharp stone between the shoe and the wall of the 

 sound hoof in order to cause temporary pain, so that the 

 horse, being tender in both feet, will appear to go sound. 



Beans, if sound, thin-skinned, not less than one year 

 old, and weighing from 60 lbs. to 64 lbs. per bushel, are a 



