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The Horse's Friend

GENERAL INDEX.

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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

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