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INDEX 



Salting horses, 311. 

 amount of, 311. 



Star Pointer, 80. 



Saunders, J. H., 160. 



Selection, the part it plays, 193. 



Selling horses, 232. 



Sex, government of, 198. 

 facts, cited, 199. 



Shetland, Exile of Pitsford, 126. 



Shire filley, Fig. of, 151. 



Short-horn, Herd-book, 51. 



Sire and dam, influence of, 197. 



Size and weight of horses, 313. 



Soiling colts, 218. 



Spanish horse, 27. 

 horses, 62. 



Stables, arrangement, Pig. 88, 336; 

 cool, 338; damp, 338; faulty con- 

 struction, 338; lighting of, 334; 

 plan of, Fig. 89, 337; too warm. 336, 

 338; ventilation of, 333, 337; floors, 

 how made, 342; walls, how made, 

 339; walls, how repaired, 344. 



Stallion, selection of, 230. 



Stalls for brood-mares, 217. 



Stanford, Governor, 69. 



Statistics: France, 7; Germany, 7; 

 Great Britain, 6; Netherlands, 8: 

 United States, 5, 6, 8. 



Stone, Prof. John L., 360. 



Straw, provision for, Fig. 89, 345. 



Stud-book, how formed, 50. 



Sub-breeds denned, 58. 



Success, Fig. of, 157. 



Suggestions for the beginner, 222. 



Suffolk Punch, color, 152; description 

 of, 153; Fig. of, 152; foundation 

 stock, 152; improved, 153; mare, 

 Fig. of, 154. 



Sunol, 74. 



Tables of standard feeding rations, 



Teeth at advanced age, Fig. of, 263; 

 cross-sections of, Fig. of, 260; dis- 

 cussed, 246; horses' ages told by, 262; 

 ten months old, Fig. of, 249; side 



view, very old horse, Fig. of, 264; 

 temporary, Fig. of, 249; wear of, 

 six cuts, Fig. of, 265; six weeks old, 

 Fig. of, 248; two weeks old. Fig. of, 

 247; eight years old, Fig. of, 259; 

 eight years old, side view of. Fig. 

 of, 261; four years old, Fig. of, 252; 

 four years old, side view of, Fig. of, 

 253; five years old, Fig. of, 254; five 

 years old, side view of, Fig. of, 255; 

 seven years old, Fig. of, 257; seven 

 years old, side view of, Fig. of, 258; 

 six years old, Fig. of, 256; six years 

 old, side view of, Fig. of, 256; three 

 years old, Fig. of, 251; two years 

 old, Fig. of, 250. 

 Thirty war-horses, 64. 

 Thoroughbred, Tennessee and Ken- 

 tucky, 69. 

 as drivers, 69. 

 crossed with, 68. 

 horse, 28, 30. 



importations into United States, 66. 

 training, 16, 17. 

 Tribe explained, 50. 

 Tricks of the trade, 233. 

 Traitor Shire stallion, Fig. of, 150. 

 Trotter in England, 71. 

 in Austria, 71. 

 in France, 71. 

 in Italy, 71. 

 in Russia, 71. 



Trotters compared with pacers, 84. 

 Trotting gait, natural, 70. 



horse, 70. 

 Trotting records, 73. 



Unsightly ears, Fig. of, 240. 



head, Fig. of, 240. 

 Use a factor in improvement, 192. 



Variations, cause of, 193. 

 Ventilation, 333. 



Wagon, draft of, 350. 

 low-wheeled, 350. 

 wide-tired, 350. 



