Index. 



Nitrogenous compounds, their identity from all sources, 30. 



,, principles of food, 30, 63, 156. 



Non- nitrogenous principles of food, 32. 



,, relative proportion of, in different kinda 



of food, 63, 156. 

 Nose- bags, 131. 



OATS, 64, 156. 



cost of feeding upon, 65. 



do not always require bruising, 157. 



essential qualities of, 65. 



proportion of husk in, 67. 



quantity to be used, 157. 



straw, 99. 

 Objections to a change of grain, 83. 

 to green food, 97, 170. 

 to the use of dry food, 54. 

 CEsophagus, 15. 

 Oil-cake, 165. 



,, value of, for young stock, 166. 

 Ointment for feet, 212. 

 Organs of digestion, 14, 108. 

 Origin of calculi, 52, 162. 



PATENT baked food, 104. 

 Paving of stable floors, 196. 

 Pea and bean straw, 101. 

 Peas, 159. 



,, and beans should be bruised, 175 

 Pharynx, 15. 

 Pit animals are much neglected, 77, 105. 



their hours of work, 77. 



horsekeepers have too many animals under their care, 105. 

 Pluck or breeding, 48. 

 Precautions to be observed in feeding, 23, 46, 50, 95, 167, 170. 



,, to be observed in purchasing horses, 126. 



Prehension, 14. 



Prejudice against system on colliery estates, 4, 77, 87, 108. 

 Prevention, importance of, 4, 46, 205. 

 Pricks and binds in shoeing, 218. 

 Process of digestion, 26. 

 Profuse staling, 42. 



Proportion of husk in different kinds of oats, 67. 

 Provision for maintaining warmth in the body, 35. 

 Ptyalin, 16. 

 Puffing the glym, 114. 

 Pumiced feet, 217. 



