This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905. Excerpt: ... INDEX Acidity of stomach, cure for, 248. Age of horses, determining, 205. Aids, application of the, 88-89. Air in stables, 211, 212-213, 218. Alcohol, hardening skin with, 247. Ale, use of, in sickness, 241, 247. Alidor, 30. Alix, trotting record of, 290. Aloes as a purgative, 247. America, the home of the horse, 162-164. Horse history of, 162, 179--194. Importation of horses to, 162, 180-182, 191, 285. Number of work-animals com-pared with other countries, 163-164. Roads in, 192-194. American Saddle-horse Breeders' Association, 16. Anderson, Richard Clough, 80. Andrew Jackson, 190. Antiseptics, 244, 249. Aperients in horses' diet, 40, 234, 240, 247. Apples for horses, 40, 234. Aprons, driving, 418. Arabella, horses on the, 181. Arabian. See Darley and Markham. Arabians, degeneration of, 4-5. Argentine Republic, horses in, 163. Army horsemen. See Cavalry. "Art of Horsemanship, The," Xeno-phon's, 64,155, 203, 267. Ass, brain of, 161 n. Auctions, purchasing at, 34-35. Aure, M. d', master of riding, 75. Australia, statistics of horses, 163. Austria, number of horses in, 163. Wagon rims in, 194. Axles, inspection of, 278. Backing, training horses in, 135-137, 296. Backs of horses, defective points regarding, 204. Balking, 98-99. Ball Brothers, breeders, 52-53. Bandaging of horses, 42-43. Barbary, horses from, in America, 182, 183. Barley, as food, 233, 240. Nutritive value of, 237. Baucher, M., riding authority, 75, 109, 129, 155. Bay Bolton, 285. Bayard, Henri Franconi's, 100. Beans for horses, 233-234, 237. Bearing-reins, 272-273, 305. In driving--Four, 368-369. Pair, 345. Tandem, 396. Bedding in stalls, 39-40. Belle Hamlin, 284. Berthune, 8. Bits, care of, 218, 317. Duke of Newcastle on, 268. Fit of, 268-269. Horses not led by, in harnessing, 3'6, 334-Leat...
