530 



INDEX. 



Bran mashes, more gentle and more 



safe than aloes 55 



Breaches of stable decorum by young 



horses 207 



Bread, given to horses in Germany, 



might be used as food 195 



Breaker, the, operates only on the 



fears of the colt 453 



Breaking and training 449 



begins at three years old 147 



loose 217 



should be gradually enforced from 



the earliest age 455 



Breaks are not often publicly used 



to exercise horses in 304 



Breast collar-strap 507 



Breathing life treated as it were an 



inanimate chattel 200 



Breeders should take example from 



the agriculturists 428 



Breeding, its inconsistencies and its 



disappointments 427 



of horses is at present altogether 



wrong 437 



suckling, and living on grass 446 



Bricks and mortar are valueless in 



comparison with horse flesh 298 



Bricklayer's trowel likened to the 



teeth 158 



Bringing the sole near to the ground, 



danger of 102 



Brittle hoof 99 



Brougham horse, a 371 



Brougham or phaeton harness 603 



Brushing or cutting about the pas- 

 tern joint 121 



Bulk is not always an assurance of 



strength 419 



merely distends and injures the 



stomach 177 



Bull neck, a 391 



Bustle hails the appearance of a 



stranger in the stable 204 



Buy a young horse by the teeth as 



regards age 164 



C. 



Calkins destroying the even bearing 



of the foot 109 



in the slipper shoe made by thin- 

 ning the quarters Ill 



Can, bleeding, its form and use 88 



blood should be pressed against 



the neck 91 



horses have aristocratic predilec- 

 tions 215 



Capacity of most dteors to stables... 235 

 Capital and tact required to job car- 

 riages successfully 368 



Carriage, a, without C springs, and 



a brougham 488 



harness, a full suit of 504 



horses are not kept by the Lon- 

 don dealers 367 



houses are always large enough... 233 

 the treatment required for, when 



in its house 492 



Carriages 477 



congregate on wet nights before 



fashionable mansions 823 



Carrying round the food to the sta- 

 bles 192 



Carters sit upon the loins of young 



horses 265 



Cart horse, a 401 



with a Roman nose 394 



horses are not formed to trot 273 



have long mustaches 394 



Cartilago nictitans 36 



its special use and action 36 



Carts should never exist without 



springs 386 



Cast in the stall 231 



under the manger 259 



Cause of chink of the back is the 



greed of proprietors 273 



Cause of odd hoofs in the horse 413 



Causes of cutting 121 



which increase the liability of the 



foreleg to injury 416 



Caustics dangerous as internal medi- 

 cine 59 



Cavity of the pulp in the molar teeth 157 

 Ceiling of stables, how it is formed 316 

 Certain steeds snap and bite when 



being dressed too violently 289 



Channel diminishes with age 136 



Character and color of upland hay 173 



lowland hay 173 



Cheap harness is generally danger- 

 ous 496 



horses are not to be bought in 



London 359 



Cheapness is not economy when 



buying oats 182 



Chififneybit, the 623 



Child, a, might sit the thorough- 

 bred trot 421 



Chink of the back 266 



Circular chest, the, good for slow 



work 401 



exercise 462 



motion induces blindness 451 



Clark, of Edinburgh, his old shoe 



preferred to new inventions 121 



Classic mind, the, recognized the 



signification of the horse 242 



Clean saddle, how to 516 



Cleaning harness, the proper method 

 of .. 604 



