GENERAL INDEX.

Page.
Autobiography, 11
Bits Used in Educating Horses Addicted to Bad Habits:
To prevent a horse getting his tongue over the bit, 251
Lolling the tongue, 251
Cure a horse sucking wind, 252
Dead mouth, 253
Cure a side-reiner, 253
Cattle, Education of:
To educate a cow not to kick while being milked, 327
To educate a cow to give down her milk, 331
Practical result of educating cows to give down milk, 335
To educate cattle to lead behind a wagon, 339
System of educating steers, 428
Directions for Feeding and Fitting the Horse, 451
Dogs, Education of:
To roll a barrel, 411
To fire a gun, 411
To pass between your legs, 415
To jump through hoops, 415
To stand on chairs, 416
Dunbar System of Horseshoeing, etc., 445
Educating the Horse, System of:
New method of haltering a vicious or wild colt, 161
Teaching the words “Come here”, 165
How to lay a horse down, 169
How to get a horse up that throws himself, 173
To educate a colt not to be afraid of his heels, 177
To educate a colt to drive before being harnessed, 181
How to educate a colt to move his body when he moves his head, 185
Improved method of bitting colts, 189
Educating a horse to ride, 193
Instructions to ride the colt, 197
To halter-break and hitch a colt in the stall, 201
To educate the horse not to kick at you when entering the stall, 205
To educate the horse that kicks or paws in the stable, 209
To prevent a horse from getting cast in the stall, 213
To educate a colt to lead behind a wagon, 217
To educate a horse that is bad to catch, 221
To educate a horse not to rear, 225
To educate and prevent a horse from cribbing, 229
To educate and break a halter-puller, 233
To educate a horse not to kick when the rein gets under his tail, 237
Another method of educating a kicking horse, 241
To harden a tender-mouthed horse, 244
To educate the horse bad to groom, 247
Hugging the pole, 248
Luggers on the bit, 248
To educate horses not to fear objects while driving, 257
First lesson in educating horses not to fear an umbrella, 261
Second lesson in educating horses not to fear an umbrella, 265
Horse bad to bridle, 262
To educate a single-footed horse to trot square, 269
To educate a pacing horse to trot, 273
To educate a horse to trot fast, 277
To educate a horse not to kick while in shafts, 281
To educate and infuse life into a lazy horse, 287
To educate a balky horse to draw in double harness, 295
An easy method of starting a balky horse, 291
To educate a horse not to kick while being shod, 299
To educate a horse while standing bad to shoe, 303
Double hitch educating bridle, 307
A boon for the blacksmith, 311
To educate a horse not to be afraid of the cars, 315
To educate a horse to back at the word of command, 319
To educate horses or cattle not to jump fences, 323
To educate a tender-mouthed horse to pull on the bit, 343
To educate horses not to fear a buffalo robe—illustration and instructions found between pages, 344 and 345
To educate and make a horse bad to catch, 399
Fast Horses, Record of, 513
History of the Horse, 141
Intelligence of Animals, 345
Miscellaneous:
The only practical way of administering medicine to a horse, 423
To tell a horse’s age, 425
New method to tell the age, 426
Sure method of producing a rapid growth in horses’ hoofs, 444
Corns and their treatment, 459
Ferren’s steel horseshoe, 362
Hoof-expanding shoe for contracted feet, 362
Recipes—Many Never Before Published:
An excellent liniment for sprains, splints or curbs, 270
A remedy for heaves, 324
A sure cure for worms in horses, 336
A cure for colic or gripes, 328
Cure for spavin, 408
Cure for windgalls, 408
Cure for colic, 419
Cure for heaves—never before published, 336
Diuretic drops, 284
Treatment of wounds, 266
To prevent horses being teased by flies, 304
An English stable liniment, 266
Liniment for contracted hoof, 296
For inflammation of the lungs, 324
To cure the scratches in the shortest time ever known, 392
To cure distemper, 404
To cure hide-bound, 404
To cure inflamed swellings or lame shoulders, 408
Ring bone remedy, 270
Remedy for botts, 266
Another cure for spavin, 424
A valuable liniment for sweeny, 316
Ointment for bruises, scratches, saddle galls, etc., 296
Nerve and bone liniment, 274
Sure cure for poll-evil and fistula, 274
To cure influenza, 496
Condition powders, 498
Glanders, 499
Lock-jaw, 503
To distinguish between distemper and glanders, 504
Chronic cough, 505
Treatment for Rheumatism, 505
Founder remedy, 506
Horse ointment, 506
Magic liniment, 507
French paste for bone spavin, 508
How to clean and oil harness, 509
Physic Ball, 510
To scatter poll-evil, 511
Healing salve for abrasion and cuts, 511
Wash for foul ulcers, 512
Antispasmodic tincture, 512
Shoeing, A Treatise on, 431
To prevent horses interfering, 441
To prevent overreaching, 443
Trick Horses:
To educate a horse to mount a pedestal, 367
To make a horse waltz, 368
To walk on his hind-feet, 371
To teach to say “No”, 372
To teach to go lame, 376
To teach to be vicious, 379
To teach to push a vehicle, 375
To teach to laugh, 380
To teach to walk on his knees, 383
To teach to drive a boy off a pedestal, 387
To teach to make a bow, 388
To teach to shake hands, 388
To teach to sit down, 391
To teach to bore for oil, 395
To teach to walk upright, 396
To teach to take handkerchief from his side, 403
To teach to kiss a boy, 407
Rules Trotting Course, Revised, 521