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INDEX. 



Climatic influences, Prof. Low on, 24. 

 Clydesdales, 265. 



and Shire horses blended, 269. 



stud book, American. 273. 



stud book, Scotch, 269. 



type of the (Illustration), 267. 

 Coach horses, French, 235. 



how to breed them, 99. 

 Color influenced by imagination, 78. 



markings from fright, 78. 



of Clydesdales, 272. 



of Percherons, 276. 



of Shires, 260. 



transmitted, 103. 

 Colostrum, or flrst milk, 179. 

 Colt-founder, 325. 

 Colts, accidents and diseases of, 293. 



attention to at birth, 176. 



diarrhoea, or scours, in, 183, 301. 



effect of exercise on development 



. of, 163. 



gentling the, 166. 



lice on, 334. 



mange, 334. 



teaching to eat. 160. 



the weaning of, 161. 



umbilical hernia, 300. 



worms in the intestines of, 305. 

 Condition of stallion for the stud, 104. 

 Constipation of the bowels, 18C. 

 Controlling the sex, 82. 

 Controlling the stallion when in use, 



114. 



Coomsie horses, 186. 

 Coupe horses, how to breed, 99. 

 Courage of stallions, 139. 

 Cows' milk for foals, 160. 

 Crosses, top most important, 60. 



violent, effect of, 48. 

 Cross-fertilization, 28. 

 Crossing and in-breeding, 44. 

 Crypto rchids or ridgelings, 321, 343. 

 Curly or frizzled horses. 186. 



Dam and sire, relative size of, 62. 

 Danger from kicking mare. 116. 



from overfeeding, 110. 

 Darkness injurious to the eye, 297. 

 Darley Arabian, 197. 

 Darwin, Chas. F., on in-breeding, 51. 



on reversion, 18. 

 Defects transmitted, 95. 

 Dentition of horses, 404. 

 Development affected by exercise, 163. 



by food and climate, 15. 



by castration, 138. 

 Diarrhoea in foals, 130. 301. 

 Difficult parturition, 175, 329, 364. 

 Diseased tendencies transmitted, 144. 

 Diseases peculiar to breeding stock, 

 293, 310, 335. 



of brood mares. (See brood mares, 

 diseases of.) 



of stallions. (See stallions, dis- 



Distemper, or strangles, 306. 

 Dongola, the horses of, 188. 

 Draft horse, qualities of a good, 96. 

 Drugs and medicines for a stallion 



condemned, 104. 

 Drying off the brood mare, 162. 



Dun horses of Tartary, 187. 



Dwarf breeds produced by climate, 15. 



Eclipse, 195. 



Effect of age on fertility of stallion, 

 126. 



of age on quality of the get, 127. 



of castration on stallion, 138. 



of change of climate on breeds, 15, 

 20. 



of change of climate on generative 

 organs, 81. 



of climate on the eye, 296. 



of exercise on development, 164. 



of flrst impregnation, 66. 



of imagination on color, 78. 



of overfeeding, 108, 113. 



of pasture upon breeding mares, 

 182. 



of teething on the eye, 298. 

 English Shire and Cart horses, 254. 

 Eruptions on the penis, 318. 

 Evacuation of bowels of foal, 180. 

 Excessive feeding dangerous, 108, 113. 

 Excessive venery, 315. 

 Exercise for brood mares, 152. 

 Exercising the stallion, 106. 

 Extent of hereditary influence, 34. 

 External injuries to stallions, 310. 

 Eye, hygiene of the, 293. 



the, as affected by the teeth, 298. 



Family, value of, 13. 

 Feeding the stallion, 104. 



the young foal, 160. 



to Increase flow of milk, 159, 174. 



to produce weight, 108. 

 Feet and legs, 94. 

 Fertility affected by in-breeding, 48. 



by condition of, 126. 



by violent crosses. 48.. 

 Fighting between stallions, 141. 

 Fillies, when old enough to breed, 167. 

 First impregnation, Influence of, 66. 



may be ignored, 76. 



Prof. -Law on, 67. 

 First milk, or colostrum, 179. 

 Flanders, black horses of, 254. 

 Flemish blood in Clydesdales, 265. 



in Shire horses, 254. 

 Flemish horses, 254. 

 Flying Childers, 196. 

 Foaling, period of, 154. 



rest after, 158. 



signs of. 156. 

 Foals, 363. 



attention to at birth, 176, 180. 



cow 's milk for, 160. 



diarrhoea, or scours, 130, 301. 



effect of milk on stomach of, 302. 



feeding young, 160. 



following the dams, 159. 



hernia, or rupture, 300. 



per cent of to mares served, 123, 129. 



strangles, or distemper, 306. 



weaning, 162. 



worms in intestines, 305. 

 Food for mares while suckling, 159, 303 



for the stallion, 105. 



for young foals, 160, 303. 

 Formation of breeds, 38. 



