The history of the Shire horse and the origin of the English Cart-Horse Society, together with an essay on the breeding, rearing, feeding, and management of farm horses

Abstract

Beaconsfield (Lord) and Clydesdales, 17. Breed that which Suits, 21. Breeding centres, 26. Breeding Farm Horses, 23. ------, Physiology of, 23. Brood Mares, Selecting, 11. Cart Horse Shows, 1880, 56. 1881, 60. 1882, 64. 1883, 68. Clydesdales, 16. Colour, 4. Contents of Stud Books, 51. Conveyance of Horses by Rail, 13. Cost of Keep, 38. Cow's Milk injurious, 31. Curtis on Feeding, 36. Drugs, &c, 39. Early Breeding, 31. England's Glory, Wilson's, 9. English Cart Horse Stud-Book Sug- gested, 14. Entries at the Four Shows, 69. Essay and Prize, 51. Essay on Rearing Farm Horses, 32. Exhibiting Stallions, 34. Expenses, Incidental, 39. Famous District, 6. Farmer's Club Meeting, 41. Feeding, 33. Foaling, 28. Food (Dry) for Foals, 29. Good Nursing, Value of, 30. Hereditary Taint, 22. History of the Shire Horse, 7. Honest Tom (Welcher's), 7. Hopper's Prince, 9. Horse Breeding increasing, 15. Horse Show Committees, 56, 60, 68. Howard, James, M. P., on Breeding, 23. Incidental Expenses, 39. Insurance, 13. Judges, 57, 61, 64, 69. King Tom, 7. Labour, 40. Liverpool Corporation Stud, 38. London Cart Horse Shows, 1880, 56. ,, ,, ,, 1881, 60. „ ,, ,, 1882, 64. „ 1883,68. London Farmers' Club, 41. Management of Farm Horses, 35. Market Value, 2. Mare and Foal, 29. Mares in Season, 27. Mating, II. Mixture of Blood, A, 17. Name of Society, 44. Norfolk Breeders, 10. Noted Stallions, 5. Officials, 47. Old Breeders, 4. Old Heart of Oak, 8. Old Type, 1. Origin of Shire Horse, 2. . ------of the E. C. H. Society, 41, 42. -------------Stud Book, 49. Original Council, 47. Original Members of Association, 45. INDEX. 71 Slipping Foals, 28. Spooner on the Origin of Farm Horses, 3. Stallion Shows, 14. Stallions for Exhibition, 34. Steam and Horses, 41. Stewards, 56, 60, 68. Stud Book proposed, 14. -------------published, 49. Suffolk Punch, 15. Title of Society, 44. Valuable Mares and Fillies, 8. Ventilation, 32. Veterinary Inspector, 57, 61, 69. Water, 33. Welcher's Honest Tom, 7. Worsley Hall Stud, 10. Over Feeding, 30. Pasture, 25. Pedigree, 25. Physiology of Breeding, 22. Points, 11. Practice in Norfolk, 37. Prices given, 12. Prize Winners at Shows, 1880, 57.