INDEX. 



ABE 



ABERLORNA, experience of, 

 100, 109, 119, 123, 210, 

 213, 219 

 Action of horses, 148, 151, 169, 



170, 173, 181 

 Aloes, 25, 26 



American farmers, 65, 66, 67, 

 74, 79, 141 



— horseshoers (see Russell) 



— trotters, 42 



Anstruther Thompson, Colonel, 



161 

 Antimony, 17 

 Apathy of horseowners, 15 

 Army, farriers in the, 84, 121 

 Arsenic, 17 



Artillery horses, 174, 218 

 Asphalte pavement, 43, 58, 85, 



88, 126, 198, 199, 200, 201, 



202 

 Astley, Philip, 60 

 Attrition, 94, 95, 112, 114, 183, 



198, 194, 195 

 Australia, 113 



BACKING a load, 78, 142, 

 184 

 Bare feet, 82, 83, 84, 88, 94, 

 113,114,117,121,123,124, 

 125,130,143,154,187,189, 

 199, 208, 215, 223 

 Bare floors, 22, 24, 32, 65, 82, 

 83, 92, 115, 116, 154, 163, 

 189 



COG 



Bars of the foot, 38, 55, 56, 

 100, 137, 139, 177,221 



Bearing^ rein, the, 26, 134, 170, 

 171, 176, 194 



Blistering, 6, 25, 26, 27, 36,91, 



92, 97, 151 



Bracy Clark, 185, 194,195, 196 

 Brakes on wheels, 2, 7, 9, 11, 



12, 24, 60, 86, 178, 207 

 Brittle hoof, 20, 46, 76, 91, 92, 



93, 97, 104, 135, 139, 151, 

 154, 157 



Broken wind, 147. 

 Brushing (see Cutting) 

 Burdett, Colonel, 91, 103, 104 



OARACTACUS,' 185 

 Cape, horses at the, 83, 



141, 174 

 Calks, 34, 35, 37, 38, 66, 77, 78, 



87, 105, 107, 178, 207 

 Carriage horses, 170 

 Carts and cart horses, 7, 27, 35 

 Cavalry officer, a, 154 

 Centennial shoe, the, 74 

 Charlier shoe, the, 54, 55, 58,, 



60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 67, 6d, 



74, 77, 78, 140, 157. 177, 



184, 200, 220 

 Cleft of frog, 194, 207 

 Climate, 81, 115, 117, 130 

 Clips, 43, 76, 87, 105, 107 

 Coffin bone, the, 34, 71, 98 

 Cogs, 86, 87 



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