INDEX.

Abrasion, 275

Accidents to children, 6

Adjusting mouthpiece, 74, 87

Administering ball, 265

Adonis (hunter), 42

Age at which to begin to ride, 10

Age of hunters, 214

Age symptoms, 321

Ailments, 271

Aloes, 263

Amateur blacksmiths, 322

Amateur jockeys, 321

Amateur tailors, 54

Anecdote of boy on pony, 168

Anti-rearing bit, 76

Appliances for young equestrians, 70

Apron (carriage), 326

Aspect of stables, 250

Attitude when driving, 331

Balance riding, 15, 101

Bales, 312

Balling-irons, 264

Ball mixture, 266

Balls, 263

Bandages, 270

Bandaging, 320

Bandaging eyes, 269

Bargains, 188

Bars of the mouth, 74

Baulking, 163

Beans, 246

Bearing-reins, 329

Bedding, 258

Bencraft hames, 327

Bit and bridoon, 71

Bitting, 63, 328, 329, 336, 337

Bleeding, 268

Blemishes, 41

Blinds, 255

Blinkers, 322, 329

Blistering, 267

Blood can, 268

Blood stock, 285

Bodices, 50

Boiled barley, 247

Boiler, 259

Boiling corn, 243

Boiling grain, 316

Bolts (carriage), 326

Boot for horse, 309

Boots (for riders), 47, 56, 182

Boring, 137

Box stalls, 252

Breakfast (hunting), 221

Breaking (alteration of pace), 128, 131

Breaking in, 293

Breaking intractable horse, 301

Breastplates (hunting), 308

Breeches, 55, 180

Breeding, 280

Breeding centres, 216

Bridle hand, 315

Bridles, 66

Bridling, 86

Broken knees, 277

Broken wind, 311

Bronchitis, 271

Brood Mares, 282

Brushing, 308

Buck jumping, 139

Bungling, 170

Buxton bit, 328

Calkins, 234

Cambridge bit, 71

Cantering, 101, 132, 135

Cantering in harness, 330

Carefulness, 198

Carriage covering, 326

Carrying shoe, 228

Cast under manger, 314

Cats, 260

Celluloid, 61, 199

Chaff, 247

Chifney bit, 71

Children mounting, 18

Children riding, 5

Chilled water, 248

Chloroform, 278

Clearing nostrils, 311

Clips (carriage), 326

Clover hay, 247

Cobs, 209

Colds, 271

Colic, 272

Collar shy, 325

Collars, 326

Confidence, 152

Congested lungs, 271

Consideration for servants, 124

Contrast in articles, 192

Cooked food, 241

Cooking apparatus, 259

Coolness in danger, 141

Cork girl, 65

Corns, 238, 273

Corn chest, 258

Corsets, 201

Costume for hunting, 180

Costume for road and park, 44

Costume for young learner, 18

Country riding suits, 307

Coupling reins, 330

Courtesy, 229

Covert coats, 185

Covert hack, 204

Cow kick, 132

Cracked heels, 274

Crib-biting, 319

Cupboard (stable), 259

Curb chain (adjusting), 87

Curry-comb, 313

Cutting out a single line, 227

Cutting out riding trousers, 195

Defective vision, 322

Demeanour at meet, 223

Destroying animals, 278

Diamond (racer), 35

Diarrhœa, 272

Diet for foal, 290

Dishing, 319

Dispensing with stirrup, 15, 103

Disquietude in mounting, 143

Ditch and drain falls, 172

Docking, 311

Doctoring, 262

Doors, 252

Down jumping, 149

Draught, 256

Drinks (physic), 266

Dropping, 40

Dumb jockey, 297

Dwyer curb, 71

Ear hairs, 313

Economics, 188

Educated smiths, 238

Elbows, 103

Empress in Cheshire, 70

Escaping falls, 166

Exercising youngsters, 311

Experience with mare in field, 119

Experiment with a mare, 78

Fallen trees, 147

Falling, 166

Falling on the flat, 175

False economies, 194

False quarter, 316

False refinement, 130

False teaching, 151

Farcy, 274

Fashionable coachmen, 329

Feeding, 217, 241

Feeding pail, 288

Fencing, 149

Filling feet, 314

Fire buckets, 257

Firing, 273

First class drivers, 332

Flap reins, 13

Fleam, 269

Flies, 311

Flooring, 251

Fluid physicking, 266

Foal bands, 53

Foal feeding, 288

Foot fever, 272

Foot “home,” 100, 325

Foaling, 286

Foaling-box, 287

Fomentations, 270

Ford crossing, 22

Fore-legs, 211

Fractured hoof, 239

Friction, 268

Gag-bits, 68, 69

Galloping, 136

Gaping, 75

Getting teams together, 334

Girthing, 90

Girths, 85

Glanders, 271

Glazing, 255

Gloves, 47, 258

Going at a leap, 148

Going fast at water, 152

Granary, 258

Grooming, 313

Groom’s excuses, 242

Groom’s bedroom, 260

Gruel, 247

Habit-cutting, 320

Hacks, 203

Half horned hunting snaffle, 72

Hames, 326

Hand galloping, 136

Hands, 108, 128

Hanoverian Pelham, 68

Hat fasteners, 60

Hats, 47, 186, 199

Harness rooms, 260

Haunches, 213

Hay, 246

Hayloft, 256

Heel horn (removing), 235

Heel opening, 233

Heels, 236

Height of hunter, 212

Helpers, 266

Hiring horses, 321

Hocks, 205

Holding the reins, 107

Hollow back, 35

Hoofs, 37

Horse balls, 264

Hot fitting, 323

Hunters, 203, 209

Hunters in harness, 208, 244

Hunting, 217

Hunting breastplate, 308

Hunting centres, 324

Hunting colts, 290

Hunting outfit, 179

Hunting scarlet, 323

Hustling, 308

Idle grooms, 313

Ignorant officer, 65

Immersion, 177

Impure air, 254

Incidents with Quorn hounds, 126

Indiarubber reins, 297

Indiarubber shoes, 237

Indiarubber soles, 273

Indigestion, 271

Inflamed gums, 272

Inquiring peculiarities, 125

Inspecting mounts, 123

Instructing youngsters, 296

Irish peasants, 4

Joe Anderson, 35

Jog trot, 232

Joint oil, 277

Judging hunters, 215

Jumping off a bungler, 170

Jumping youngsters, 300

Keeping hold of bridle when down, 176

Kemble Jackson mouthpiece, 337

Kickers in hunting-field, 228

Kicking, 137

Kicking-strap, 327

Knee injuries, 277

Laceration, 276

Ladies’ horses described, 35–42

Lampass, 272

Laxatives, 267

Leaders, 331, 334

Leaping, 146

Learners’ riding costume, 44

Leg-straps, 302

Leg-washing, 274

Level feeding, 257

Level-seated saddles, 17

Lever’s West-countryman, 249

Lice, 313

“Lifting” at fences, 150

Light hands, 128

Lighting (stables), 255

“Little tricks,” 125

Liverpool bit, 69

Lolling out the tongue, 75

Losing shoes, 228

Lungeing, 294

Maddened horse, 145

Mangers, 257, 314

Martingales, 77, 78

Mashes, 248

Matching horses, 335

Measurements of food, 244

Measurements of mouths, 73

Measuring boiled grain, 315

Megrim, 321

Melton mouthpiece, 68

“Mostly fools,” 169

Moths, 326

Mounting, 93–96

Mounting youngsters, 298

Mouthpieces, 307

Mouths, 307

Mud-fever, 274

Nagging, 330

Navicular disease, 272

Negligence in caring clothes, 197

Newfoundland feeding, 248

Newmarket coats, 185

Nicholl’s patent stirrup, 85, 317

Night lighting, 257

Nosebands, 77

Numbed legs, 321

Nursing stables, 288

Oats, 245

Obnoxious equestrians, 225

Oculist, 201

Offside riding, 90

Opening veins, 278

Operations, 278

Outfit for park and road riding, 47

Overdraw draw check, 336

Overlooking mount, 123

Over-reach, 275

Pad-pony, 13

Paces, 135

Pair, driving, 330

Pasturage for brood mares, 286

Patent bar, 317

Pecking, 176

Peculiarities, 125

Pelham bit, 68

Pendulous shoe, 240

Pests of the hunting-field, 168

Pets, 249

Physicking, 263

Pick-me-ups, 336

Pilots, 226

Pinning up, 269

Pistol, 318

Pleader (hunter), 22

Plugs (steel), 322

Points, 210

Poking the chin, 73

Ports, 71

Position on horseback, 97

Posts, 251

Poultices, 270

Preparation for hunting, 217

Pressing youngsters, 306

Price list, 187

Probing, 276

Projections, 252

Propellers, 161

Pullers, 137

Pulling up, 133

Purchasing horses, 33

Quartern, 323

Racehorse trotting, 206

Racing, 298

Railing hunters, 221

Rainproof garments, 61

Rarey bit, 295

Rasping hoofs, 234

Rearing, 140

Rearing bit, 76

Refusers, 158, 164

Reining back, 133

Reins, their uses, 107, 114

Restlessness, 311

Rick in the back, 316

Riding-habits, 48

Riding hats, etc., 199

Riding masters, 27

Riding to Courtown, 25

Riding to covert, 222

Ringbone, 271

Rising in saddle, 102

Road riding, 122

Roaring, 271

Roguery, 160

Rolling clear, 170

Roofing, 251

Ropebiting, 315

Rules of the field, 272

Rules of the road, 134

Running away, 143, 328

Saddle-bar (Born’s), 84

Saddle-cloths, 85

Saddle fitting, 84

Saddle-galls, 275

Saddle measurements, 84

Saddling, 80, 88

Saddling youngsters, 298

Safety pad, 13

Safety stirrups, 85

Salt in manger, 320

Sash windows, 254

Sawmouth bridoon, 309

Schooling, 151

School teaching, 147

Screw leaping head, 84

Seated shoe, 321

Secrets of leaping, 149

Segundo bit, 68

Self-teaching, 275

Selecting a mount, 29, 32

Sending by road, 221

Servants, teaching, 28, 99

Setting off, 127

Sewarrow, 56, 317

Shaft-tugs, 327

Sheep’s horn shoes, 237

Shifting saddle, 229

Shoeing, 231

Shoeing nervous horse, 309

Shoes (to last), 323

Shooting, 278

“Show” in driving, 332

Shying, 142

Silk under clothing, 199

Sires, 282

Situation (of stable), 250

Skirt without hem, 199

Slings, 269

Sluggish, 329

“Slummucking,” 150

Smiths, 238

Snaffles, 66, 67

Soft mashes, 264

Sole paring, 233

Sore throat, 271

Speed for team, 335

Splint, 273

Spurs, 317, 318

Spurs, their uses, 121, 140

Stable forks, 323

Stabling, 256

Staking, 276

Stall measurements, 252

Stalls, 252

Stanhope bit, 68

Starting youngsters, 244

Stirrups, 85

Stockings, 180

Stumbling, 142

Straw, 258

Suitability of hunting-field for ladies, 224

Supply of hay, 323

Surface drains, 251

Sutures, 269

Swollen legs, 273

Taking tired horses home, 128

Taming, 303

Tandem, 331

Team driving, 332, 335

Team practice, 334

Team standing, 334

Temperature of food, 243

Temperature of stables, 253, 323

Thorn-fencing, 156

Three-quarter shoe, 273

Throwing up the arm, 164

Thrush, 273

Tidiness, 198

Timber jumping, 153

Timidity, 160

Timidity in riding, 30

Tips (shoes), 236

Toepieces, 234

Tongue over the mouthpiece, 73

Training, 292

Training hunters to follow, 216

Trap-door, 256

Trappings for colt, 295

Trappy jumping, 154

Trappy obstacles, 153

Travelling saddle, 314

Treatment after hunting, 229

Treatment after physic, 266

Treatment of tired hunters, 229

Trotting, 129

Trousers, 54, 182

Turning corners, 120

Twitch, 264

Underclothing, 57

Unknowing ones, 324

Up-jumping, 154

Upland hay, 246

Upper jaw bit, 336

Uses of the whip, 119

Valise (to carry), 220

Variety in feeding, 248

Vegetable diet, 246

Veils, 59

Ventilation, 253

Veterinary quacks, 311

Vices, 137

Vicious horses, 115

Voice, 114

Walking paces, 127

Wall-licking, 321

Walls, 248, 251

Washing silk articles, 200

Waste in stables, 245

Water for hunters, 222

Water-jumping, 155

Water ponds, 260

Water pots, 258

Water stains, 326

Weaning, 289

Weighty shoes, 234

Wheelers, 330, 334

Whips, 59

Whistling, 271

Width of mouthpiece, 75

Wielding whip, 333

Windows, 254

Wisdom in riding, 227

Wisping, 274

Worms, 271

Wounds, 276

Yards, 257

Yearlings, 291

Youngsters in leading reins, 149

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IV. The Lizards.

V. The Ants.

VI. The Crows.

VII. The Bats.

VIII. Bees, Wasps, et hoc genus omne.

IX. The Spiders.

X. The Butterfly: Hunting Him.

XI. The Butterfly: Contemplating Him.

XII. The Frogs.

XIII. The Bugs.

XIV. The Birds of the Garden.

XV. The Birds at the Mango Tope.

XVI. The Birds at the Tank.

XVII. The Poultry Yard.

XVIII. The White Ants.

XIX. The Hypodermatikosyringophoroi.

XX. Etcetera.

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“Some notice is accorded to nearly all the diseases which are common to horses in this country, and the writer takes advantage of his Indian experiences to touch upon several maladies of horses in that country, where veterinary surgeons are few and far between. The description of symptoms and the directions for the application of remedies are given in perfectly plain terms, which the tyro will find no difficulty in comprehending; and, for the purpose of further smoothing his path, a chapter is given on veterinary medicines, their actions, uses, and doses. This information will be most acceptable to the majority of horse-owners, and may be invaluable on an emergency when no advice better than that of the village cow doctor can be obtained.”

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A TEA PLANTER’S LIFE IN ASSAM

By GEORGE M. BARKER.

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NAGA WOMAN.

This book aims at conveying to all interested in India and the Tea industry an entertaining and useful account of the topographical features of Assam; the strange surroundings—human and animal—of the European Resident; the trying Climate; the Daily Life of the planter; and general details of the formation and working of Tea Gardens.

The illustrations, by the Author, add greatly to the interest of the work.

ASSAMESE.

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By THOMAS A. C. FIRMINGER, M.A.

THOROUGHLY REVISED AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME BY J. H. JACKSON, Editor of “The Indian Agriculturist.”

PART I. Operations of Gardening.

Chap. I.—Climate—Soils—Manures.

Chap. II.—Laying-out a Garden—Lawns—Hedges—Hoeing and Digging—Drainage—Conservatories—Betel Houses—Decorations—Implements—Shades—Labels—Vermin—Weeds.

Chap. III.—Seeds—Seed Sowing—Pot Culture—Planting—Cuttings—Layers—Gootee—Grafting and Inarching—Budding—Pruning and Root Pruning—Conveyance.

Chap. IV.—Calendar of Operations.

PART II. Garden Plants.

1. Culinary Vegetables.

2. Dessert Fruits.

3. Edible Nuts.

4. Ornamental Annuals.

5. Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Perennials.

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MANUAL OF Agriculture for India.

By Lieut. F. POGSON.

1. Origin and Character of Soils.—2. Ploughing and Preparing for Seed.—3. Manures and Composts.—4. Wheat Cultivation.—5. Barley.—6. Oats.—7. Rye.—8. Rice.—9. Maize.—10. Sugar-producing Sorghums.—11. Common Sorghums.—12. Sugarcane.—13. Oil Seed.—14. Field Pea Crops.—15. Dall or Pulse.—16. Root Crops.—17. Cold Spice.—18. Fodder.—19. Water-Nut.—20. Ground-Nut.—21. Rush-Nut or Chufas.—22. Cotton.—23. Tobacco.—24. Mensuration.—Appendix.

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“POGSON’S AGRICULTURE.

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TALES FROM INDIAN HISTORY: BEING THE Annals of India retold in Narratives.

By J. TALBOYS WHEELER.

Forms a complete History of India from the earliest period to the present day, drawn up as a series of “Narratives” for general reading in schools and families. So far it will resemble the history of Scotland as told in Sir Walter Scott’s “Tales of a Grandfather,” omitting all details and disquisitions which are sufficiently given in the author’s larger histories of India, and seeking to tell the progress of events in the most simple and attractive manner.

Reviews of Wheeler’s ‘Tales from Indian History.’

“While the work has been written for them (natives), it has also been written for the people of England, who will find in the volume, perhaps for the first time, the history of our great dependency made extremely attractive reading. Mr. Wheeler’s narrative is written in a most graceful style; indeed, he is master of the English language. He does not confine himself to the mere dry details of history, but tells the adventures of Indian heroes and heroines in legends of love and war; describes the village communities of India, their organization and self-government; delineates the results of caste, infant marriage, and other Hindoo institutions and usages as seen in the family and social life of the people in villages and towns, as well as in courts and palaces.... The work also contains valuable observations on the foreign relations of the Indian Empire with Persia, Russia, Turkey, and China. Altogether this is a work of rare merit.”—Broad Arrow.

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“This little volume contains a history of India in the form of tales and narratives, intended by the author for the people of India as well as for those of the British Isles.”—Army and Navy Gazette.

“No young reader who revolts at the ordinary history presented to him in his school books will hesitate to take up this. No one can read a volume such as this without being deeply interested.”—Scotsman.

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THE MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN INDIA.

By EDWARD A. BIRCH, M.D., Surgeon-Major Bengal Establishment.

Second Edition; being the Eighth Edition of Goodeve’s “Hints on the Management of Children in India.”

Dr. Goodeve.—“I have no hesitation in saying that the present edition is for many reasons superior to its predecessors. It is written very carefully, and with much knowledge and experience on the author’s part, whilst it possesses the great advantage of bringing up the subject to the present level of Medical Science.”

The Medical Times and Gazette, in an article upon this work and Moore’s “Family Medicine for India,” says:—“New editions of these two well-known works have recently appeared. They are both intended to supply in some measure the medical wants of our numerous countrymen in India, who may be either far from professional help in emergencies of sickness or of accident, or destitute of medical advice regarding the proper management of their own health, and especially that of their children, in the trying climate of Hindostan. Although we are, as a rule, very much opposed to popular medical instruction, believing that the result is most frequently a minimum of serviceable knowledge along with a vast preponderance of what is but partial, misleading, and dangerous, yet the peculiar circumstances of many of our countrymen in India, together with the special and insidious dangers of its varying climate, fully justify the publication of a few trustworthy popular works to warn the unwary new-comer, before it be too late, of the dangers he has to encounter, and to give judicious counsel to solitary individuals and families who cannot enjoy the advantages of personal professional advice. Moreover, the two works before us are in themselves probably about the best examples of medical works written for non-professional readers. The style of each is simple, and as free as possible from technical expressions. The modes of treatment recommended are generally those most likely to yield good results in the hands of laymen; and throughout each volume the important fact is kept constantly before the mind of the reader, that the volume he is using is but a poor substitute for personal professional advice, for which it must be discarded whenever there is the opportunity. Written with such objects, and in such a spirit, these volumes cannot fail to be of the greatest service; and that they are appreciated is shown by the rapid appearance of successive editions, the second mentioned and elder treatise having now reached the seventh edition. We would add, that although they are specially written for lay readers, there are few young medical officers proceeding to India who would not receive several useful hints from these unpretentious volumes. But it is to parents or to the guardians of European children in India that they must be of pre-eminent service.”

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THE “TIMES.”

“The fact that this work, originally known as the ‘Directory of Bengal,’ has now reached its 24th annual issue, is sufficient to recommend it to all those who are brought into contact, in a military, civil, or commercial sense, with the civilization and intelligence of our Eastern dependencies. No longer confined to the narrow limits of Bengal, Messrs. Thacker furnish us with complete and detailed information respecting not only Calcutta, but also the citizens of Bombay and Madras. The parts which relate to the yearly almanac, public holidays, stamps, telegraphs, and customs are pretty much one and the same; but in most other matters we have before us separate and distinct information as to the various departments of Government and the arrangements of commerce, education, charitable societies and hospitals, clubs, railways, and companies. There is also a separate Army list, we note, for each of the three Presidencies. The alphabetical list of residents, comprising as it does a full record of all those of our countrymen who have taken up their permanent abodes in any of the Indian Presidencies, will be found of the greatest use to those in England who have lost all clue to their relatives and friends in the far East and wish to discover their whereabouts.”—Aug. 28, 1886.

THE CALCUTTA “ENGLISHMAN.”

“Before everything, the volume before us is in reality what it professes to be—a Directory for India. Besides an enormous mass of information of the purely Directory kind, which must have taken a world of labour to collect and collate, the volume comprises complete Army Lists for Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, including the Volunteers; lists of officers in the various Government Departments; lists of the Tea, Indigo, Coffee, and other estates in the country; and much valuable information regarding the Telegraphs, Postal Rules, Law Courts, Charities, and a host of other subjects. Nothing more strikingly represents the change that has come over India in recent years than this great Directory.”

THE “MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.”

“The Directory now includes every district and principal town in British and Foreign India, every Native State, and in fact aims at being a directory to the whole of India. It contains separate classified and street directories of each of the cities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras, a remarkably comprehensive and detailed Mofussil Directory, and a vast amount of general information relating to India, its Government, commerce, postal arrangements, festivals, and official establishments.... The expansion of the work will be welcomed as a response to the growing requirements of commerce with India.”

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