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FOWLER & WELLS CO., Publishers, 753 Broadway, New York.
AN IMPORTANT WORK.
HORSES:
THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET.
A Manual of Horse Hygiene, invaluable for the Veteran or the Novice, pointing out the Causes Of “Malaria,” “Glanders,” “Pink Eye,” “Distemper,” etc., and How to Prevent and Counteract Them. By C. E. Page, M.D., author of “How to Feed the Baby,” “Natural Cure,” etc., with a Treatise and Notes on Shoeing by Sir George Cox and Col. M. C. Weld. Illustrated with Pictures of many Famous and Thoroughbred Horses. Nearly 200 pages. 12mo, paper, 50 cents; extra cloth, 75 cents.
The value of the most of horses to their owners is measured by the amount and length of service that can be secured, and therefore all information relative to his care is very important. This book gives in a condensed form much that is valuable on the care of horses, that has not before been published. The subject is considered from a new and original stand-point, and stated in a plain, practical, common-sense manner, showing how by proper care we may add many valuable years of life and usefulness to our horses. Unlike many books issued on this subject, it does not advertise any medicines.
PARTIAL LIST OF CONTENTS.
Foul Air and Disease in Stable and Home; Blanketing a Steaming Horse; How to Transform a “Seedy” Horse; “Condition” in Horses; Why they go Lame Suddenly; Flesh vs. Fat; A Soft Horse; Fatty Degeneration; Hint to Would-be Race-Winners; Two-meal System; Extra Feed; When Injurious; Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Symptoms and Cause; Cause and Cure of “Pulling”; The Human Puller; “Colds”: What this Disorder really Is, and How Caused; Prevention of the “Distemper,” Its Cure; Cold Air not Necessarily Pure; Hand-Rubbing vs. Drugs; Danger of Medication; Concerning the Use of Blanket; Clipping; Eating and Digesting—the Difference; Kind of Treatment; Over-driving; Over-work: A Safe Remedy; Chest Founder; Chronic Disease, Cause; Hints relating to Food and Drink; Sore Back; Scrofula; Glanders; Kidney Complaints; Relation of “Condition” to Reserved Force or Staying Power; Quantity of Food; The Best Feed, Corn on the Cob; Flatulence; Cribbing; “Grassing Out”; About the Appetite; Feeding of Road Horses; What a Father-in-Law Learned; How a Truckman Avoided Lost Time, and Improved the Condition of his Horse; Trying to “Make a Horse Laugh”; First-class Stables; The Eternal “Mash”; Veterinary Practice; Founder “Counter Irritation” with a Vengeance; Eating the Bedding; Rules that may be Safely Tried; Check Rein; Blinders.
SHOEING.—Ignorance, not Cruelty, to Blame for the Horse’s Premature Decay; Value of Horse Property; Normal Age of the Horse; Chief Source of the Horse’s Suffering; One Cause and Cure of Swelled Legs; Unnecessary Work; Value of Brakes; Effect of Shoe Nails; “Inconceivable Cruelty,” as defined by Mr. Mayhew; Running Barefoot over Rocky Hills; Direct and Indirect Benefit of Reform; Everybody but the Blacksmith Benefited; Adequacy of the Natural Foot for all Demands; Independence of the Unshod Horse; French and English and Mexican Army Experiences; Col. Weld’s Experience; The Experience of Others; Speeding without Shoes; The Training and Character of Horses.
To a new edition just published has been added, as plates, a number of portraits of famous and thoroughbred horses, including “Jay-Eye-See,” “Parole,” “Alcantara,” “Miss Woodford,” “Estes,” etc.
It is safe to say that to every owner of a horse this book would prove most valuable. Agents Wanted, to whom Special Terms will be given. The price is only 50 cents in paper covers, or handsomely bound in extra cloth, 75 cents. By mail, post-paid. Address