INDEX. 



Abortion. 158, 172, 328, 360. 

 Accidental variations, 28. 



transmissible, 31. 

 Adaptation to changed conditions, 19. 



to locality, 20. 

 Africa, the horses of. 185. 

 Age, effect of, upon stallions, 126. 



for castration. 140. 



Indicated by the teeth, 404. 



quality of get not affected by, 127. 



suitable for breeding. 168. 

 Altitude, effect of, 26. 

 American Thoroughbreds, 202. 

 Arabian horses. 20. 185. 

 Ardennais horses-. 288. 

 Asiatic horses, 186. 

 Assistance in parturition. 174, 363. 

 Atavism, 19, 36. 

 Attention to foal at birth, 176. 

 Average period of gestation, 155, 352. 

 Aversion to mare, how remedied, 121. 



Bakewell's Holland Importation, 256. 



skill as a breeder, 14. 

 Barbs, 185. 



Barrenness, pauses of, 144, 321, 347. 

 Barrier for trying mares, 119. 

 Bashaws, 210. 

 Belgians, 290. 

 Bellfounder's dam, 249. 

 Black Dorsal streak, the, 186. 

 Black horses of Flanders. 254. 

 Black Lincolnshire horses, 256. 

 Bleeding mares before service, 147, 169. 

 Blindness transmissible, 103, 293. 

 Boulonnais horses, 286. 

 Bowels of the foal, 130, 301. 

 Breaking the colt, 166. 

 Breed, definition of, 38. 

 Breeding draft horses, 96. 



for sex. 82. 



from unsound stock, 95. 



general principles of, 11. 

 Breeding In-and-in, 44. 



contradiction of, explained, 52. 



Darwin on, 51. 



effect of on hardiness, 56. 



Gallon on, 47. 



Herbert Spencer's views on, 50, 53. 



how far it may be practiced, 53. 



tendency of, 46, 55. 



when not dangerous, 53. 

 Breeding stock, selection of, 91. 



trotting horses, 205. 

 Breeds formed by selection, 40. 



Breeds, how formed, 38. 



modified by locality, 20. 



modified by temperature, 18. 



of horses. 184. 

 Breton horses, 287. 

 Bridle for unruly stallion. 117. 

 Brood mares, 143, 167, 302. 



abortion, 158, 172,328.360. 



at time of foaling, 176. 



colt-founder, 325. 



confinement of, 304. 



difficult parturition. 329. 



disease* and accidents of, 321, 346. 



drying the milk, 162, 178. 



effect of general health on milk, 

 302. 



exercise for. 152. 



food to produce milk, 159, 302. 



heat during pregnancy, 119, 328. 



laceration of the perineum, 333. 



laceration of the rectum, 328. 



Jeucorrhoea or whites, 324. 



nymphomania, 323. 



oedema of pregnancy, 337. 



productive period of, 151, 169. 



super-impregnation, 327. 



stallions and foals, 88. 



tumors of the vagina, 324. 



working, 12, 167, 170. 

 Buffalo trotting course, 2ia 



Canadian horses, climatic effect on, 16. 

 Cancer of the penis and sheath, 312. 

 Cart horses, English, 254. 

 Castration, effect of, 138. 



effect of on development, 139. 



when it should be performed, 140, 



341. 



Causes of abortion, 158, 172, 328, 360. 

 Causes of barrenness, 144, 347. 

 Central Asia, the horses of, 185. 

 Changed conditions, adaptaton to, 19. 

 Change of climate, effect of, 15. 



effect on generative organs, 81. 

 Circassla, horses of, 185. 

 Clays, 208. 

 Cleopatra, in-breeding illustrated by, 



46. 

 Cleveland Bays, 241. 



stud book, 246. 



type of the (illustration), 243. 

 Climate, effect of on the eye, 293. 



effect of on the generative organs, 



influence of, 15, 20. 



(428) 



