INDEX 



Admittance to stall, refusing, 

 125 ; Mr. Merritt W. Harper's 

 remedy for, 126 



Animals, Society for the Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to, absurd 

 position taken up by, 71 



Appetite, horse with delicate, 49 



Bails, swinging, economise space, 



9 



Balance, how to ensure perfect, 



195 

 Bandages, standing in, 120 ; 



cotton wadding, 144 

 Bearing reins, use of, 68 ; non- 

 sense about, 68 ; arguments 

 against, untenable, 69 ; late 

 Duke of Beaufort on, 70 ; 

 Col. Smith Bailhe on, 71 

 Beaufort, the late Duke of, 



quoted, 70 

 Bits, multiplicity of, 167 ; snaf- 

 fle, various kinds of, 167 ; 

 ■i. double-ringed snaffle, 168 ; gag 

 f snaffle, 168 ; Pelham, 168 ; 

 jv Hanoverian Pelham, 168 ; Chif- 

 ;' ney, 169 ; Segundo, 169 ; 

 ' Gridiron, 170 ; Ben Morgan, 

 ' 171 ; drawback of, 171 ; Lord 



Lonsdale's, 172 

 Bleeding, periodical, 138 

 Blistering, care in, necessary, 156 

 Bridle roads to be avoided late 



in the day, 102 

 Bridles, leading, 163 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 163-164 ; reins of, 166 ; 

 how to hold double-reined, 197 ; 

 Capt. Hayes' plan, 198 

 Broken knees, treatment of, 143 

 Brook, the steeplechase, 245 

 Brooms for indoors, 106 ; for 

 outdoors, 107 



Brushes, best quality of, desirable, 

 III 



Buckets, wooden preferred, 107 ; 

 for fomentation, 107 



Buying, improvement in methods 

 of, 23 ; important considera- 

 tions in, 28 ; of farmers, 33 ; 

 the best plan for inexperi- 

 enced men, 33 ; hints for, 36 



Catarrh, symptoms of, 152 ; 



treatment of, 152 

 Charge, mercurial, 142 ; Mr. 



John Osborne's, 142 ; recipe 



for, 143 

 Children, teaching them to ride, 



185 ; their seat, 185 ; should 



never ride till tired, 185 ; not 



to be molly-coddled, 186 

 Clipping and singeing, a good plan 



of, no. 

 Clothing, keeping of horse, 161 ; 



necessity for changing, 162 

 Coach house, situation of, 178 

 Colic, symptoms and treatment 



of, 155 ; difference of, from 



enteritis, 156 

 Cracked heels, causes of, 148 ; 



treatment of, 150 

 Cribbing, taught by tying up 



chain, 5 

 Cubic contents of stables per 



horse, 15 ; some statistics of, 



16 

 Curry comb, not to be used on 



horse, 112 

 Custance, Harry, anecdote of, 31 



Dawson, Matthew, 108 

 Diarrhoea, symptoms and treat- 

 ment of, 154 

 Disappointment, causes of, 26 



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