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INDEX. 



Cold water, application of, 132. 

 Colts, pasturing of, 173. 

 Cooley's lock hasp, 65. 

 Coriander seed, 166. 

 Corn, 79, 83. 



a heat-producing feed, 69. 



analysis of, 80. 

 Corn-meal and bran, 84. 

 Cresylic soap, 151. 

 Cribbing, 140. 



prevention of, 140. 

 Crown soap, 150. 

 Curb-bit, 159, 155. 

 Curb-chain, 155. 

 Cutter, hay and straw, 102. 



"Dandy brush," 115. 

 Doors of stables, 19. 

 fastenings of, 20 

 "Dexter's" feed, 70. 

 Diseases of horses, 172. 

 Drainage of stables, 23. 

 Draught horses, 85. 

 Dressing, or grooming, 113, 115, 



116. 

 Dry-hard hoofs, 131. 



Egg, white of, 167. 

 Exercise, 118. 



Fairman Rogers's stable, 177. 



Farm stable, 61. 



Fastenings to doors of stables, 20. 



Feed, "Dexter's," 70. 



Feed for brood mares, 73. 



mules, 74. 



old horses, 73. 



stallions, 74. 



spavined horses, 73. 



railway horses, 71. 

 Feeding, regularity in, 109. 

 Feet, care of, 130. 

 Floors of stables, 22. 

 Food, chemistry of, 66 

 Foot properly prepared for the 

 shoe (illustration), 133. 



Forest leaves for bedding, 138. 

 Four-in-band, 153. 



Gentleman's stable, 17. 



Good feeding, advantages of, 174. 



Grass, 92. 



for bedding, 137. 

 Grooming, 113, 115, 116. 

 Gunpowder as a medicine, 167. 

 Gutter, iron surface, 24. 



Hanoverian bit, 159 

 Harness, 151. 



specialities in, 151. 



care of, 154, 155. 



paste and blacking, 154, 155. 

 Harness-room, 42. 

 Hay, 96, 99, 102. 

 Hay and straw cutter, 102. 

 Hay loft, 19. 



Heat-producing feed, corn a, 69. 

 Horse feed, weight per bushel of 



articles of, 105. 

 Horses, runaway, 173. 



"led," 119. 



poor man's, 72. 



blanketing, 121. 



diseases of, 172, 



draught, 85. 



number of in United States, 

 11. 



prices of, 1.3-15. 



shoeing, 132. 



spavined, feed for, 73. 



young, pasturing of, 173. 

 Horses' feet, care of, 130. 

 Hoofs, dry-bard, 131. 

 House for carriage, 40. 



Implements in private stables, 114. 

 Iron surface gutter, 24. 



Keeper of livery stable, 53. 

 Kemble Jackson bridle, 153. 

 Kicking, 138. 

 Kicking-strap, 153. 



