PREFACE 



Having been requested to contribute from 

 time to time, articles for papers devoted to the 

 horse, I have an accumulation of these that I 

 thought it might not be amiss to publish under 

 the title of "Essays on Horse Subjects." 



Many of these subjects I have never seen any 

 literature upon, and these Essays are largely the 

 result of twenty-eight years' experience as a 

 practical horseman and veterinarian. Covering 

 as they do the borderland between the provinces 

 of the veterinarian and horseman, they relate to 

 subjects which have been to a large extent ne- 

 glected by both. This fact is my excuse for pub- 

 lishing them, F. C. G. 



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