XII TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XV. 



HOW TO BUY AND SELL A HORSE. 



PAGE 



I. Accurate Knowledge Necessary.— II. Buying Cheap Horses.— III. A Guar- 

 antee of Soundness. — IV. Know What you Buy for. — V. The Proportions 

 of the Horse. — VI. Description of Eclipse. — VII. What Constitutes a Grood 

 Horse. — \JU. Models for Buying. — IX. The Racing and the Trotting Form. 

 —X. The Roadster.— XI. Saddle Horses.— XII. A Horse of High Form.— 

 XIII. Buying for Blood. — XIV. Choosing the Brood Mare. — XV. Selecting the 

 Stallion.— XVI. How to Detect Vices and Defects.— XVII. Some Faults 

 and Imperfections.— XVIII. What is Unsoundness? 249 



BOOK I— PART II. 



DISEASES OF THE HORSE.— HOW TO KNOW THEM, THEIR 

 CAUSES. PREVENTION AND CURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



SYMPTOMS AND GENERAL TREATMENT. 



Introduction. — IT. Outward Manifestations of Disease. — III. Symptoms of 

 Internal Diseases. — IV. Importance of Prompt Treatment. — V. Know What 

 You are Treating. — VI. Nursing and Feeding Sick Animals. — VII. Ex- 

 planation of Terms Used. — VIII. Graduation of Doses. — IX. How Often 

 to Give Medicines. — X. Forms of M'edicines, and How to Administer 273 



CHAPTER n. 



FEET OF THE HORSE AND THEIR DISEASES. 



Corns. — ^11. Quittor. — ^III. Quarter and Sand Cracks. — IV. Seedy Toe. — 

 V. Pricking from Nails. — VI. Acute Founder or Laminitis. — VII. Chronic 

 Founder or Laminitis. — VIII. Pumiced Feet 281 



CHAPTER III. 



FEET OP THE HORSE AND THEIR DISEASES, CONTINUED. 



I. Thrush. — II. Navicular Disease. — III. Contraction of the Foot. — TV. Grav- 

 el. — V. Canker. — 'VI. Calks. — VII. Fracture of the Bone of the Foot. — 

 VIII. Stone Bruises.— IX. Side Bone 299 



CHAPTER IV. 



SHOEING AND CARE OF THE FEET. 



What a Shoer can do. — 11. How to Prepare the Foot for the Shoe. — III. 

 Where the Bearing Should Rest. — IV. Weight of Shoes and How to Fit 

 Them —V. Care of the Feet in the Stable.— VI. The Floor of the Stall 310 



