INDEX. 



415 



Board and lodging, servants', 402. 



Body as a machine, 14. 



Body-brush, 328. 



Body, composition of the, 3. 



Boiling food, 114. 



Bone, composition of, 119. 



" Bone " in horses, 120. 



Bone meal as food, 103. 



Bones, 100. 



,, , food for strengthening, 103. 

 Boots, cleaning, 368. 

 Bots, 347, 348. 

 Box, sea-going horse, 375. 



,, . size of loose, 229. 

 Boxes, construction of loose, 241-244. 



,, , merits of loose, 225-228. 

 Brackets, 246. 



Bran, 62, 64, 66, 69, 72, 91, 92, 125, 

 160, 161. 



,, mash, 161. 

 Brass, cleaning, 365. 

 Breaking grain, 117. 

 "Breaking out" into sweat, 23, 334, 



337- 

 Breast cloth, 294. 



girth, 294. 



Breathing, action of, 91. 

 Breathlessness, 55. 

 Breeches, cleaning, 369. 

 Brewers' grains, 63, 64, 158. 

 Brewing, 158. 

 Bricks, blue, 213, 219. 



,, , glazed, 220. 



,, , manufacture of, 217. 



, paving, 213. 

 Bridles, cleaning, 360-362. 

 Bristles of brushes, 327. 

 British gum, 69. 

 Brooms, 253. 

 Bruising grain, 115, 116. 

 Brush room, 247. 

 Brushes, stable, 327. 

 Brushing the hair, 19. 

 Buckets, 254. 

 Burnisher, 332. 

 Bursatee, 42. 

 Button loops, 292, 293. 



CECUM, 71, 87. 



Cab horses, London, 184, 191. 



Calculi, 114, 135. 



Canal boat horses, 191. 



Capillary attraction, 26. 



Carbo-hydrates, 5, 64, 94-96. 



Carbolic acid, 259. 



Carbonic acid in air, amount of, 202. 



in body, 6, 8, 9, 10, 100. 

 in water, 132, 133. 



,, ,, , poisonous action of, 202. 



Carriage groom, 398. 



,, horses, grooming, 321. 

 Carriages, cleaning, 366. 



,, , effect of ammonia on, 47. 

 Carrots, 63, 64, 67, 72, 168. 

 Cast, horses getting, 228, 234. 

 Cart horses, food for, 184, 185. 

 Cattle, prehension of food by, 74. 

 Cavalry horses, feeding, 183, 184. 



, mortality among, 198. 



Cerealin, 69. 

 Cellular cloth, 33. 

 Cellulose, 65. 

 Cement-concrete, 211-213. 

 Chaff, 174. 



, Eastern, 154. 

 Chalk for floors, rammed, 217. 

 Chalk-stones, 56. 

 Change of food, craving for, 106. 

 Chemical affinity, 11-15. 



,, analysis, reliability of, 68. 

 Chest, 91. 

 Chewing, 76-82. 

 Chill, 22-25, 53. 

 Chlorophyll, 14. 

 Chop, 97, 116, 117, 174, 181, 182. 



,, , Eastern, 154. 

 Clay for floors, 216. 



,, soil for stables, 193. 



,, stopping for feet, 264, 346. 

 Clean, seeing if horse is, 349. 

 Cleaning food, 114. 



gear, etc., 359- 370. 

 room, 247. 

 Clipped horses, 35. 

 Clipping, 350-354. 



