CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



STABLE AND STABLE CONSTRUCTION, HYGIENE OF THE STABLE 



Housing— Sanitation— Flooring— Situation— Construction— Stable »age 

 fittings — Water supply — Bedding . . . . .11 



CHAPTER II 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF HORSES 



Grooming — Feeding — Clipping — ^Washing — Clothing and band- 

 ages — Watering — Wintering and Summering horses — Agist- 

 ment of horses — Forage — Bedding . . . . .15 



CHAPTER III 



HEAVY DRAUGHT HORSES 



The Shire and Clydesdale — Percheron and Suffolk — The Packing- 

 ton BUnd horse and Weisman's Honest Tom — The Suffolk 

 — ^The farmer's horse — The vanner and the tradesman's 

 horse . ' \, ......... 35 



CHAPTER IV 



HEAVY DRAUGHT HORSES — AGE, SEX, COLOUR, SELECTION, 

 SOUNDNESS, ETC. 



Selection — ^Mating — Conformation — Value of the heavy draught ■ 

 horse — Soundness — Colour — Age — Vice — Buying a horse — 

 Feet — Sight and wind — Various diseases .... 47 



CHAPTER V 



BREEDING HEAVY HORSES AND THE SELECTION OF THE 

 SIRE AND THE DAM FOR THIS PURPOSE 



Breeding heavy horses — Selection — Pedigree .... 56 

 CHAPTER VI 



THE CARE OF MARE AND FOAL THEIR MANAGEMENT 



FROM SPRING TO WINTER 



Period of gestation — Selection — Age at which to breed from — 

 Registration of brood mares — Disease — FoaUng season — 

 Weather — Weaning — Septic laminitis . . . • 59 



