XIV CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Fitting Collar to Horse— Each Horse Should Have His Collar — 

 Large Collars — Form of Collar — Adjustment of Hame-Tug — 

 Soaking Collars — Hame-Straps— Clean Shoulders and Collar 114 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



Natural Foot of Horse — The Frog and Sole Protect the Foot — 

 Ground Surface of Good Feet — Ground Surface of Contracted 

 Feet — Ground Surface and Wall of Foundered Foot — The Colt's 

 Feet 118 



CHAPTER XXVn. 



Shoeing and its Efifects i^i 



CHAPTER XXVni. 



Feeding Horses— Variety of Food— Too ]Much Hay — Must be Fed 

 with Care — Rations for Horses in London — Feeding Cavalry 

 Horses — Mortality from all Causes — Aluscle-Making Food and 

 Exercise for Colts — Idleness and Fat — Ration for Weanling 

 and Older Colt — Bran and Bran-Mashes 127 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



Fattening Horses for Market— Corn— Glauber Salts— Oil Meal — 

 Floating the Teeth — Stuffing Process — Feeding Work Horses — 

 Water Before Feeding — Over-Feeding — Idle Horses — An Ex- 

 periment — Economic Feeding — Feeding and Health — Feeding 

 Little Colts — Grow Frame-work of Colts — Weanling Colts and 

 Water — Exercise the Colts — Weaning Colts — Skim Milk 131 



CHAPTER XXX. 



Devices for Controlling Horses — Education in the Stall — The Halter- 

 Puller — A Mere String — Kicking and Pawing — The Horse Shack- 

 eled in His Stall — Backing the Horse 138 



CHAPTER XXXL 



Controlling Horse by His Tail — Run-away in a Circle — Poling the 

 Horse — Fastening Tie-Strap to Tail — Tying Halter-Strap to Tail 

 — Making Horse Familiar with Objects — Shackeling — Tieing 

 Legs 14^ 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



Picketing Horses — Controlling Hind Feet in Shoeing — Inducing 



Horse to Hold Leg Up — Position in Shoeing 153 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



Handling Mature Horses — Handling by the Head — Stallion Bridle — 

 Manner of Adjusting— A Good, Cheap Riding Bridle— Handling 

 Umbrella on Horseback 15& 



