INDEX. 



533 



Drag on the clinches the conse- 

 quence of the thin heel shoe.... 120 

 Draught horses require high and 



good haunches 421 



Draughts in crowded stables enable 



the horses to live 81 



Draughtsmen, their qualifications... 478 



Dress, a, carriage and a chariot 482 



Dressing the heels 358 



the horse 340 



Drinking, the manner of, explained. 71 

 Drinks or draughts, a form of horse 



physic 68 



danger of administering 69 



generally objected to 68 



reasons for these objections 68 



sometimes poured down the nos- 

 tril 69 



the objection to so giving medi- 

 cine 73 



usual mode of giving 74 



Driving a nail too fine 100 



Dry fodder prematurely wears down 



the teeth 133 



Drying the heels 350 



Dryness affects the nature of ,the 



horse's food 171 



Dusk, and at ten o'clock, duties of... 341 

 Duties of the night-watcher 325 



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Each groom should lead two horses 



to exercise 306 



Earning its keep during lactation... 436 

 Early and late is the best time for 



exercise 466 



Ears, diflferent kinds of 396 



Eastern elevation of the contem- 

 plated stables 325 



Education, modern, makes men 



knowing and not good 198 



should commence with birth 455 



Effects of living upon grass in the 



field 430 



Egyptian beans are mild and sweet.. 188 

 Eight months' solitary imprisonment 



is not rest 475 



Eight o'clock duties 340 



Employers should be blamed for the 



groom's debasement 330 



Employment of the drawing knife a 



necessity 106 



Enamel 157 



English mode of paring the foot 102 



thorough-bred tail approaches to 



the Arab 387 



Entire horses are not necessarily 



iavages 433 



Entreaty not to credit the possibility 



of a "vicious animal" 294 



Equine race, the, are treated as 

 creatures without habits or in- 

 stincts 241 



Estimable qualities of hollow-backed 

 • horses 384 



Even man's generosity causes the 



horse to suffer 475 



Every gentleman his own horse- 

 breaker 453 



Everything in the stable yields trib- 

 ute to the groom 330 



Evils of long nights to horses and to 



grooms 198 



of modern stables 200 



Ewe neck, an 391 



Exaggerated view of a weakly ani- 

 mal with dangerous action 424 



Examine the angles of the mouth 



before purchasing 398 



Excellence of the racer's action in 



the trot 420 



Excessive weakness has lost many a 



race 472 



Exchanges, with horses, are very 



expensive 373 



Excited horse, mouth of an 288 



Excitement ensues upon first snifiBng 



the pure air 334 



prevented by rapidly and silently 

 distributing the food 312 



Exercise, during training, is given 



at mid-day 466 



can be given in all weathers under 

 the ambulatory 303 



Exhausting labor renders bleeding 



unnecessary 87 



Exhaustion in youth is a bad pre- 

 parative for the stud-farm 428 



Expense of feeding the horse, how 



increased 193 



would not be increased by proper 

 treatment 463 



Experiments, uselessness of, as a test 



for medicine 60 



Experiment, testing the efiFects of a 



thick and of a thin covering 344 



Explanation of the doctor's difliculty 303 



of the term "May bird" 364 



of the word "nicking" 387, 



Expression of the ears 396 



Extended view obtained by mount- 

 ing into the manger 210 



Extravagance of h.ard food 166 



Extreme age rare in the horse 88 



Eye, the, is a certificate of the horse's 



origin 30 



Eyes, the, of the horse are much 



exposed to injury 291 



various sorts of 397 



