CONTENTS. ix 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Equestrianism. 



Horseback Riding— Its Beneficial Effects upon the Health— Teaching to Ride- 

 Position in the Saddle — A Model Riding Horse, etc 286 



CHAPTER XVI 

 Breeding. 



Principles of Breeding — Methods Adopted in Foreign Countries, etc. • . 290 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 Stabling. 



Construction of Stable — Air and Light— Form of Manger. . . -, SOl 



CHAPTER XVIII, 

 Feeding and Watering. 



Cooked Food — Mr. Bonner's System. . ...... 807 



CHAPTER XIX. 

 How to Tell the Age Accurately. 



Caries of the Teeth— Treatment. 313 



CHAPTER XX. 

 ( Shoeing. 



Principles of Shoeing — Tips and Thin Shoes — Contraction — A Reliable Method 

 of Preventing'and Curing Contraction — Old Methods of Treating it — Quar- 

 ter-crack — Simple Method of Curing Any Case — Crack, or Fissure of Toe — 

 Corns— Causes, and Practical Method of Curing — Weak Heels — Their Man- 

 agement — Interfering — Clicking, or Overreaching — Stumbling — Shoeing 

 Sore or Foundered Horses — Causes of Injury in Shoeing. .... 329 



DISEASES 



CHAPTER XXI. 



The Circulation — General Plan of the Circulatory System — Derangements of 

 that System the Cause of Disease — Importance of Ventilation.' . 401 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Anchylosis — Caries— Necrosis — Exostosis, or Bony Enlargement — Splints — 

 Spavins — Ring-bone — Side-bone, or False Ring-bone— Curb — Bog Spavins 

 and ThoTOugh-pins— Capped Hock — "Wind-galls — Navicular- joint Lameness 

 — Founder — Chronic Founder — Peditis. '"-" . . 411 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Sec. 1. Catarrh — Laryngitis: — Distemper — Glanders and Farcy — Chronic* Cough 

 — Heaves, or Broken Wind— Roaring— Rronchocele— Nasal Gleet — Influ- 

 enza, Epizootic, or Catarrhal Fever — Pink-eye— Congestion of the Lungs — 

 Pleurisy— Pneumonia — Hydrothorax — Typhoid Pneumonia — Bronchitis. . 458 



