INDEX 



Abderame, Saracen chief, 156. 



Accidents in pacing, 85. 



Air, warm and cool, 340. 



Alexander I., 63. 



American boy and the horse, 3, 4, 15. 



breeds, dearth of, 42. 



thoroughbred, 61. 



trotters discussed, 43. 

 Americans poor drivers, 297. 

 Animals for illustration, 149. 

 Appendix I., 354- 59. 



II. 360. 



III. Live-stock registry, 381-387. 



IV. Number and value of horses, 

 388-392. 



Arabian horse in France, 32. 



in Great Britain, 29. 

 Army-horses, breeding of, 354. 

 Artillery-horses, 355. 

 Ashes for horses, 311. 

 Association, National Trotting Horse 



Breeders', 74. 

 Atavism explained, 201. 

 Attachment, high and low, 351. 



Backing horses, 315. 

 the horse, 290. 



Bakewell, Robert, 141. 



Beauty valuable, 234. 



Beginner, suggestions for, 222. 



Belgium draft, characteristics, 169; de- 

 scription, 171; draft, 168; origin, 

 168; size of, 169; stallion, Fig. of, 

 169, 170. 



Bits, kinds of, 285. 



Black horse of Europe, 139. 



Blankets for draft-horses, 312. 

 how to use them, 293. 



Boulonnais, description of. 168; draft, 



168; origin, 168. 

 Breeders' Gazette, 151. 

 Breeding for the army, 354. 



generations discussed, 183. 



horses, 267. 



laws of, 178. 



laws of, discussed, 176. 



mares, how secured, 204. 



mistakes of, 175. 



modified by inheritance, 181. 



nondescripts, 33. 



plan of, 202. 



principles of, 174. 



remarks on, 76, 77, 78. 



scientific, 76, 77, 78. 



stockholders interested, 202. 



studied under eight heads, 180. 



theory not correct, 184. 



variations, 177. 

 Breeds, explanation of, 49. 



formation of, discussed, 44. 



how originated, 145. 



suitably placed, 223. 

 Bressay of Pittsford, Shetland. 127. 

 British horse, 61. 

 Broadhead, Colonel, 69. 

 Broken-gaited horses, 85 

 Brood-mare, characteristics, 208; de- 

 scription of, 206; Fig. of, 205; filley, 

 Fig. of, 207; first lesson, 207; how 

 worked, 217 ; kept on farms, 225; 

 paddo2ks for, 217. 

 Bronco-gaited, 134. 



Canadian horses to United States, 87. 

 Cattle, wild, 179. 

 Cavalry-horses, 69, 356. 



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