INDEX. 



427 



Paaren, Dr. N. H., on paralysis of the 

 penis, 312. 



prolapse of penis, 312. 



scrotal hernia, 313. 



sexual sluggishness, 317. 



spermatorrhoea, 317. 



superimpregnatlon, 327. 



tumors of the vagina, 324. 



vesicular eruptions of penis, 318. 



waterbag, so-called, 315. 

 Pacers, 221. 



type of the (Illustration), 223. 

 Paralysis of the penis, 312. 

 Parturition, difficult. 329, 364. 



signs of, 156, 174, 363. 

 Pasture, effect of on brood mares, 182. 

 Per cent of foals to mares served, 123, 



129. 



Persian horses, 185. 

 Pedigree in the human family, 12. 



tests of, 61. 



value of, 59. 

 Percherons, 273. 



type of the (illustration), 275. 

 Penis, inflammation of the, 311. 



cancer of the, 312. 



paralysis of the. 312. 

 Percheron-Norman controversy, 282. 

 Percheron Stud Book, American, 286. 



French, 285. 



Perinaeum, laceration of, 333. 

 Periodic ophthalmia, 294. 

 Perriot, Ernest, on Percherons, 280. 

 Pilots, 210. 

 Poltevins, 288. 

 Ponies. 185, 187. 

 Pregnancy, heat during, 119, 168, 328. 



signs of, 169, 350. 

 Pretender, Wroot's, 248. 

 Principles of breeding, 11. 

 Productive period in brood mares, 151, 



169. 



Prolapse of the penis, 312. 

 Ptolemys, an Illustration from the, 47. 

 Puerperal fever, caused by overfeed- 

 ing, 145. 

 Pure air essential, 164. 



Quality of mare's milk, 179. 



of get not affected by age of sire, 



Rectum, laceration of, 328. 

 Relative size of sire and dam, 62. 

 Remarkable productiveness, 151. 

 Reversion to original type, 18, 31. 

 Reynolds, Dr. R. S., on English draft 

 horses, 259. 



views of, 167. 

 Ridgellngs, 321, 343. 

 Roadsters and trotters, 205. 

 Roughing it, effect of on colts, 163. 

 Rupture at the navel, 300. 



of the scrotum, 313. 

 Russian trotters, 226. 



trotting rules, 230. 



Saddle horses, 221. 



Scours, or diarrhoea, 130, 301. 



Scrotal hernia, 313. 



Selection of breeding stock, 91. 



Season, fitting the stallion for the, 104. 



stallion after the close of, 13'>. 

 Service of mare, managing the stallion 



at, 116. 



Sex, controlling the. 82. 

 Sexual sluggishness, 317 

 Shales horse, the, 247. 

 Sheath, foul. 318. 



cancer of the, 312. 

 Shetland ponies, 291. 



produced by climatic influences, 15. 

 Shire and Clydesdale blended, 269. 

 Shire horses, English, 254. 



type of the (illustration), 263. 

 Shire Horse Stud Book, 259. 

 Signs of approaching parturition, 156, 



174, 363. 

 Signs of heat, or oestrum, 167. 



pregnancy, 169, 350. 

 Size of sire and dam, relative. 62. 

 Skimmed milk for colts, 160. 

 Sluggishness, sexual, 317. 

 Soundness, importance of, 89. 

 Spain, the horses of, 187. 

 Speed of American trotters, 213. 

 Spencer, Herbert, on In-breeding, 50, 



53. 



Spermatorrhoea, 317. 

 Sports, 28. 

 Spotted horses, 187. 

 Stables, how they should be lighted, 



297. 

 Stable management of the stallion, 



108. 



Stallions, accidents and diseases of, 

 310-335. 



cancer of the penis and sheath, 312. 



cryptorchids, or rtdgelings, 321, 343. 



dourioe, 340. 



excessive venery, 315. 



external injuries to, 310. 



foul sheath, 318, 345. 



inflammation of tue penis, 311, 345. 



inflammation of the testicles, 311, 

 335. 



mal da colt, 340. 



masturbation, 319, 340. 



non-emission, or "proudness," 316. 



paralysis of the penis, 312, 339. 



sarcocele, 337. 



scrotal hernia, 313. 



sexual sluggishness, 317. 



spermatic cord, tumors on the, 346. 



spermatorrhoaa, 319. 



sterility, causes of, 347. 



varicocele, 338. 



vesicular eruption of the penis, 

 318. 



waterbag, so-called, 315. 

 Stallions, brood mares and foals, 88. 

 Stallions, controlling, when in use, 

 114. 



aversion of to mare, how remedied, 

 121. 



bridle for described, 114. 



condition for the stud, 104. 



danger from overfeeding, 110. 



effect of castration on, 138. 



effect of age, 126. 



exercise for, 106. 



fighting. 141. 



