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Jacks, breeding, 121-123. 

 Johnstone, J. H. S., Best Horse for 

 the Farmer to Breed, 134-140. 



Knee-sprung horses, how benefited, 

 180. ^ 



Lameness in horses, causes and treat- 

 ment, 234-236, 237, 23S. 



Laminitis, 240. 



Laryngitis, 244, 245. 



Light harness horses at State Fair, 

 197, 199. 



Linch, Charles, Glanders or Farcy, 

 225-233. 



Lungs, congestion of, 246, 247. 



M 



Mambrinos, origin of, 24. 

 Mare, brood, care of, 148-151. 

 age to breed, 148. 

 feed and care, 18, 149. 

 foaling, 149, 151. 

 conditions governing conception 

 of, 147. 

 Market, horse, offered in New York 



State, 194-196. 

 Mating, suggestions as to, 15. 

 Meade, DeVoe, Coach Horses, 110- 



118. 

 Messenger, importance of, in horse 



history, 24, 3'2. 

 Milk, skim, substitute for mother's, 

 151. 

 value of, for young colts, 

 160. 

 Minklor, F. C., Feed and Care of 



the Horse, 187-192. 

 Molasses as a feed, 189, 190. 

 Monday morning, disease. 259-262. 

 cause, 259, 260. 

 prevention, 261, 



262. 

 symptons, 260. 

 treatment, 260, 261. 

 Minday morning leg, 240. 

 Morgans, history of, 24, 25. 

 Motors, influence of, on horse indus- 

 try, 25, 42. 



Mule, breeding of, 125, 126. 



castration of, 126, 128. 



defined, 119. 



disposition, 125. 



early history of, 121. 



longevity of, 123. 



reaching and trimming, 128. 



shoeing, 128. 



value of, for labor, 124, 125. 

 Mules, Asses and, Dr. C. W. Brod- 

 head, 119-128. 



N 

 Nasal gleet, 243, 244. 

 Need of a Stallion Law, Dr. W. G. 



Hollingworth, 207-212. 

 New Jer.sey stallion law, 209, 212. 

 New York State, Draft Horse Breed- 

 ers' Club, 268. 

 Fair, Horses at the, Dr. H. 



S. Wende, 193-206. 

 Farms, The Horse on. Dr. M. 

 Hamilton, 129-133. 

 Nick, what constitute a fortunate, 15. 

 Nivornais horses, 73. 

 Nose, obstruction in, 244. 



O 



Oats as feed, 189. 



Obstruction in nose, 244. 



Oil meal in feed, 189. 



Ophthalmic test for glanders, 229, 



230. 

 Overreaching, shoeing to prevent, 180. 



Pabst Stock Farm, Hackney breeding 



on, 104-109. 

 Parasites, internal, treatment for, 191. 

 Pedigree, importance of, in breeding, 



15. 

 Peer, F. S., Horse Companionship, 

 26.3-267. 

 The Hunter, 57-66. 

 Percheron horses, 75-81. 

 at State Fair, 201, 202. 

 breeding of, in America, 81. 

 characteristics of, 79. 

 early importations, 78, 79. 

 exhibitions, 76. 



