Index 



Linseed oil as a purgative, 23 



,, value of, 22, 23 

 Litter — peat-moss, sand, saw- 

 dust, straw, 23, 24, 25 

 London, 16 

 Loose-boxes, 4, 5, 6, 7 



,, indispensability 



of, 4 



Mangers, 2, 3 



Man-of-all-work as groom, i 



Manure, 24, 25 



Mare, a delightful, 26 

 ,, with Arab strain, 45 



Market Harborough, 60 



Martingale, the, 61 



Midlands, the, 21 



Motors, advantages and dis- 

 advantages of, 47, 48, 49 



Mud fever, dS, 71, 73 



Nervousness, effect on horses. 

 New Forest, 34, 36, 39 



Oats, foreign, 13 



,, hints in buying, 20 



,, nutritive value of, 19 



,, value as food, 19 

 Ointment, iodoform, 69 

 Outhouses, how to make 



stables from, 2, 3 



Peas, 21, 22, 57 



,, split, 22 

 Peat-moss, 14, 23, 24, 25 

 Pelham snaffle, 62 

 Pony, Dartmoor, 36 



,, Exmoor, 36 i 



,, New Forest, 36 ! 



,, Welsh, 36 I 



Pony-bred horses, docility of. | 



35 'I 



Price, Sir Richard Green, 31 

 Puller, a hard, 61 

 Purgative, linseed oil as a, 23 

 Pytchiey, Master of the, 43 



Radnorshire, 39 

 Reins, curb, 61 



,, safety, 63 

 Remedies, simple, 23, 68, 69, 



70, 71, 72, 73, 74 

 Riders, careful and careless, 



75 



Saddle-horse, points to be 



noticed in choice of, 32, 33 

 Saddles, 59, 60 

 Sand, 23 

 Sawdust, 23, 24 

 Shoeing, 76, 77 

 Snaffle, the, 60 



,, Pelham, 62 

 Somerset, West, 39 

 Stables, draughty, 2, lo 



,, effect of employing 

 second man in, 38 



,, faulty construction of, 

 2, 9, 72 



,, three primary requis- 

 ites for, I, 76 

 Stalls, purpose of, 6 

 Stokes, Mr, 60 

 Strains, treatment for, 73, 74 

 Straw, 14, 23, 24, 25 

 ,, storage of, 14 



Tandem-driving, cart for, 53 

 ,, hints on, 50, 



5i» 52, 53. 54» 55 

 Tandem-whips, 54 

 Tar, Stockholm, 72 

 Tattersalls, useful horses at, 



37 

 Temperature of stables, 6, 7, 8 



89 



