CONTENTS. ix 



CHAPTER IX. 



PAGE 



Horse-clothing and horses' coats. — Kerseymere clothing. — 

 Colour of clothing. — Making up of clothing. — London 

 and provincial work. — Quarter-sheet and breast-piece. 

 — Fillet-strings. — Pad and roller. — Improper girthing 

 up of rollers. — Evils of girthing up of rollers too tightly. 

 — Hoods. — Short hoods. — Fawn-striped rugs. — Weight 

 and price of ditto. — How to test woollen goods. — Night 

 rugs. — Summer clothing - - - - 54 



CHAPTER X. 



Bandages. — Mode of tying bandages. — Cracked heels. — 

 Woollen bandages. — Hunting bandages. — Support from 

 bandages. — Colour of material for bandages. — Care of 

 bandages. — ' Naphthaline ' for prevention of moth in 

 woollen goods, etc. — ' Naphthaline ' for saddles. — 

 Stocking bandages. — Water bandages. — Chamois- 

 leather bandages. — Sweating bandages. — -Bandaging. — 

 Prices of bandages - - - - - 64 



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CHAPTER XL 



Stable headstalls. — Prices of headstalls. — Lead-lines. — 

 Logs. — Fitting of lead-lines. — Prices of lead-lines. — 

 Prices quoted for articles. — Good and bad articles. — 

 Rack-chains. — Spring-hooks. — New patent hooks. — 

 Kneecaps. — Use of kneecaps. — Evils of kneecaps. — 

 Proper description of kneecaps. — Kneecaps too tightly 

 fitted. — How to fit on kneecaps. — Necessity for ob- 

 taining good articles. — Price of kneecaps. — Watering 

 bridles. — Watering snaffles. — Dirty watering snaffles. 

 — Reins for watering snaffles. — Care and condition of 

 watering snaffles.— Accidents from rotten reins. — Mode 

 of fitting watering-bridle reins. — Leading-reins. — Useful 

 maxims. — Exercising without saddles. — Price of water- 

 ing bridles ... . . 71 



