X TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE HORSE'S TEETH, AND HOW TO TELL HIS AGE. 



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I, The Dental Formula.— II. The Teeth are the True Index of Age.— III. 

 The Foal's Teeth. — IV. Differences Between the Teeth of Foal and Horse. 

 — V. Allowances to be Made. — VI. Illustrating by the Chart 113 



CHAPTER VI. 



BREEDS OF HORSES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 



Influences of Country and Climate.— II. The Farm Horse.— III. The 

 Clydesdale Horse. — IV. The Norman-Percheron. — V. The Percheron of 

 To-day. — VI. The Conestoga Horse. — VII. Road Horses. — VIII. Trot- 

 ting Horses. — IX. Hunting Horses. — X. Light Driving Horses. — ^XI. 

 Coach Horses.— XII. The Cleveland Bay.— XIII. The French Coach 

 Horse.— XrV. The Hackney.— XV. Ponies.— XVI. The Vermont Draft ' 

 Horse.— XVII. The Narragansett Pacer.— XVIII. The Shire.— XIX. The 

 Belgian Horse. — XX. Characteristics of the Belgian Horse 120 



CHAPTER Vn. 



THOROUGHBRED HORSES. 



English Thoroughbreds. — 11. Herbert's History of the English Horse. — 

 m. The First London Race Course. — IV. Horses Taken to England by 

 Crusaders. — V. Bone and Bulk Imparted to the English Horse. — VI. The 

 Horse in th'e Times of Henry VIII and James I. — ^VII. American Thorough- 

 breds.— VIII. The Arabian 152 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ABOUT TROTTING HORSES. 



I. The Breeding of Trotters. — 11. Progenitors of Fast Trotters — 'Messenger. 

 — III. Imported Bellfounder. — IV. The Modern Trotter. — V. What Gold- 

 smith Maid Was Like.— VI. The Movement in Trotting.— VII. Disuse of 

 the Trotting Faculty.— VIII. Highly Bred Horses. — EX. Strains of Trot- 

 ting Blood IG'J 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE BREEDING AND REARING OP COLTS. 



Importance of Accurate Knowledge.— IL Breed From Mature Animals.— 

 III. No Profit in Inferior Horses. — IV. Heredity in Animals. — V. Pe- 

 culiar Organic Structure.— VI. Heredity of Disease.— VII. Atavism or 

 Breeding Back— Breed to None but the Best.— VIIL Variation and De- 

 velopment.— IX. Transmission of Qualities.— X. The Impress of Color 

 and Form.— XI. Relation of Size in Sire and Dam.— XII. Breed Only 

 From Pure Sires.— XIII. The Best are Cheapest in the End.— XIV. Se- 

 lection of Stallion and Mare.— XV. Service of the Stallion.— XVL The 

 Period of Gestation-Treatment.— XVII. Treatment After Foaling.— 

 XVIII. How to Know if a Mare is in Foal.— XIX. How to Know the Foal- 

 ing Time.— XX. The Foaling Stall.— XXI. Abortion, or Slinking the 

 Foetus.— XXII. How to Raise a Colt 183 



