INDEX. 



351 



Feeding mules, 272. 



,, of the cab horse, 139. 

 ,, on board ship, 262. 

 ,, on march in peace, 140. 

 ,, on railway journeys, 269. 

 „ on service, 138, 139. 

 ,, old horses, 128. 

 ,, oxen, 298. 

 ,, thin horses, 128. 

 ,, tired ,, 126. 

 ,, windsuckers, 127. 

 ,, young horses, 128. 

 Feet of camel, 284. 

 „ „ ,, injuries to, 336. 

 ,, ,, horses, 214. 

 „ ,, ,, injuries to, 335. 

 ,, ,, mules, 271. 

 ,, ,, oxen, 298. 

 „ ,, ,, injuries to, 336. 

 ,, picking out of, 65. 

 ,, overgrown, 225. 

 ,, various shapes of, 224. 

 ,, washing of, 66. 

 Felt strips in saddle fitting, 180. 

 Fescue grasses, 106. 

 ,, barren, 108. 

 Fetlock joint, 20. 

 Fever, 310. 

 Fever in the feet, 338. 



,, ,, ,, ,, feeding horses with, 128. 

 Fibre, woody in food, 87. 

 Filly, definition of, 34. 

 Fine-leaved fescue, 106. 

 Fine nail holes, 239. 



,, nails, 238. 

 Finishing shoeing, 238, 239. 

 Fiorin grass, 107. 

 Fitting breast harness, 212. 

 ,, collars, 202. 

 ,, pack saddles, 197, 198. 

 ,, of saddle, 176. 



,, ,, ,, and boot compared, 168. 

 ,, ,, ,, irregularities in, 180. 

 „ ,, ,, pannels, 171. 



Fitting shoes, 236. 



,, ,, hot and cold, 236. 



,, ,, faults in, 237, 



Fittings of stables, 54, 56. 

 Flaps of saddle, 170. 

 Flat feet, 224. 



,, sided, 26. 

 Flatulent colic, 321. 

 Flea-bitten grey, 31. 



,, marks, 32. 



Flesh-making group of foods, 86, 87. 

 Fleshy feet, 224. 



,, leaves of foot, 217, 218, 222. 



,, sole, 218. 

 Floating foxtail, 108. 



,, sweet grass, 109. 

 Floors, stable, 48. 

 Flour as food, 9, 139. 

 Flute bit, 80. 

 Foal, definition of, 34. 

 Fodder, camel, 284, 285, 286. 

 „ Egyptian, 119. 

 ,, Indian, 117. 

 ,, oxen, 299, 300. 

 ,, provision on service, 138. 

 Folding blankets, 172. 

 Fomenting, 307. 

 Food and feeding, 86. 



,, addition of salt to, 121. 



,, analysis of, 88. 



,, bamboo leaves as, 116. 



,, barley as, 96. 



,, beans a*:, 99. 



,, brewers' grains as, 97. 



,, bulk essential, 122, 126, 140. 



,, compressed, 104, 139. 



,, constituents of, 86. 



,, conversion of, into nourishment, 17. 



,, for the sick, 306. 



,, furze as, 116. 



,, gram as, loi. 



,, green, 115. 



,, ,, crops as, 116. - 



,, guinea grass as, 116. 



