Hints on Buying and Selling Horses. 



incurred. Also let the sj'ce, besides necessary money, have a 

 sufficient number of post-cards addressed to yourself to post 

 one at every Post Office he passes. If all is well, he need 

 write nothing on them, as the post marks and dates will show 

 his progress. If they suddenly cease, the last one will give a 

 clue where to commence enquiries through the Police if 

 necessary. Warn the syce that he will be prosecuted if he lets 

 out your horse to "serve" village mares en route, as this is 

 often done in travelling. 



TO MAKE A NEW HORSE QUICKLY FOND OF YOU, 



scrape some shreds off its "thumbs" and rub them over its 

 nose with the palm of the hand. The horse will whinny and 

 eagerly follow you to get another sniff. The "thumbs" are 

 the 4 large excrescences on the inner sides of the legs, 2 above 

 the knees and 2 below the hocks, and are sometimes called 

 the casters. Oil of Rhodium {Convolvuhis Scorparitis) rubbed on 

 the nose will act in the same way, and in Australia Oil of Cumin 

 {CinninumCyminvm) is similarly used with colts. 



This is a stable secret which it is believed has never before 

 appeared in print. Take care that your hand is at the time 

 free from the smell of tobacco or any other substance repug- 

 nant to horses. 



WARRANTY usually is given as follows: — "Received 

 ru])ees one thousand from Major C — for a bay Waler Gelding, 

 height 15 hands, branded H on near fore-shoulder, warranted 6 

 years old, sound, free from vice, quiet to ride and drive." 



RETURNABLE CAUSES. Stonehenge gives the follow- 

 ing alphabetical list of diseases and injuries which entitle the 

 purchaser to return a horse warranted sound : — 



Rog spavin, if it interferes | Laminitis. 



with the action of the i Mange. 



joint. 1 Megrims, if an attack took 

 Blood spavin, an aggravat- place before the sale. 



ed form of bog spavin. | A nerved horse. 



Breaking down. [ Ophthalmia prior to sale. 



Broken Avind. ! Ossification of lateral carti- 



Cataract. 



Corns unless very slight. 



Cough, chronic. 



Curbs of old standing. 



Diseases of organic kind. 



Farcy. 



Crease. 



Glanders. 



lages or adjacent struc 



tures to joints. 

 Pumiced foot. 

 Quidding. 

 Quitter. 

 Ringbones. 

 Sidebones. 

 Roaring and whistling. 



