INDEX. 



183 



Leaves, forest, as bedding, 138, 

 ** Led" horse, 119. 

 Lighting of stables, 36. 

 Lightness, strength and weakness 



of carriages, 1-12. 

 Liniment for sprains, l/'2. 

 Lip-strap, 159. 

 Liquid, polishing, 156. 

 Livery stable, 50. 

 keeper of, 53. 

 Lock hasp, Cooley's, 65. 

 Loft, hay, 19. 

 Loose-boxes, 28. 

 Loose, breaking, 141. 



Mangers, 26. 

 Mare, brood, feed for, 73. 

 Meadow grass for bedding, 138. 

 Medicine, gunpowder as a, 167. 

 Mounts, brass, 155. 



Prince's or yellow metal, 155. 

 Mules, feed for, 74. 

 Mustard seed, 166, 



Natural grass for bedding. 138. 

 Nostrums, substitute for, 168. 

 Number of horses in the United 

 States, 11. 



Oats, 75. 



analysis of, 81. 

 Oat-straw, 138. 

 Oil, sweet, 166. 

 Old horses, feed for, 73. 



Paste, harness, 154, 155. 

 Pasturing colts and young horses, 



173. 

 Pelham bit, 159. 

 Phillips's stable, 41. 

 Polishing liquid, 156. 

 Poor man's horse, 72. 

 Prevention of cribbing, 140. 

 Prices of horses, 13-15. 

 Prince'a-metal mounts, 155. 

 Private stables, implements in, 



114. 



Quantity and quality of food, 72. 



Racing stable, 54. 



plan of, 55. 

 Racks, 26. 



Railroad horses, feed of, 71. 

 Railroad stables, 58. 

 Regularity in feeding, 109. 

 Regulations of club stable, 45. 

 Rein, safety, 158. 

 Remedy for chill, 169. 

 Rogers's (Fairman) stable, 177. 

 Rolling in the stable, 140. 

 Room for harness, 42. 

 Root, snake, 168. 

 Runaway horses, 173, 

 Rye, 89. 

 Rye straw, 137. 



Saddles, 156. 



Safety-rein, 158. 



Salt-marsh grass for bedding, 138. 



Sand, bar, 138. 



Saw-dust for bedding, 138. 



Seed, carraway, 166. 



coriander, 166 



mustard, 166. 

 Shackles, 147. 

 Shaft, ventilating, 33, 

 Shoeing horses, 132. 

 Shying in the stable, 135. 

 Sleeping-room for stableman, 39. 

 Snaffle-bit, 157. 

 Snake root, 168. 

 Spavined horses, feed for, 73. 

 Specialities in harness, 151. 

 Sprains, 172. 



liniment for, 172. 

 Springs of carriages, 145. 

 Stable, farm, 61. 



club, 44, 



gentleman's, 17. 



Fairman Rogers's, 177. 



Phillips's, 41. 



livery, 50. 



racing, 54. 



work, 108. 



