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Black
Beauty - Anna
Sewell
What better way to indulge your appreciation for horses and
than by revisiting this classic novel by Anna Sewell
Black Beauty tells the unforgettable story of a 19th Century
English horse subjected to both the best and worst humans
could muster.
Black Beauty is a well-born colt living in a pleasant meadow
with an elegant carriage horse. But fortune changes and he
experiences both gentle and cruel masters as he travels
through Victorian London.
It's unique voice and characterization sets this
horse-lover's favorite apart from any other novel and it
remains as fresh and as vibrant today as the day it was
written.
First
Aid Hints for the Horseowner:
A Veterinary Notebook
HORSES confined in stables are being kept under artificial
conditions, and in consequence skill is required to maintain them in
good health. Living under natural conditions the horse eats grass ;
he eats for a very considerable number of hours each day and during
the night ; he feeds in small quantities at frequent intervals, and
he drinks whenever he feels inclined. He has a very small stomach
for his size. These facts should be borne in mind when horses are in
the stable, and the less the natural conditions are disturbed the
better.
Conditioning. Horses intended for hunting during the season should
be brought in from grass during July or, at the latest, August.
During July the grass begins to lack the nutritive qualities which
it had in May and June, and the horse will come up in less soft
condition if he has been given a feed of 5 lb. oats daily the last
few weeks at grass. This extra condition is due partly to the hard
food and partly to the fact that the oats give the horse more energy
and that he therefore takes more exercise on his own...
Work comes complete with source
in word doc format as well as pdf version. Custom
cover graphics.
A
Dissertation on Horses -
William Osmer
Full title: A DISSERTATION on HORSES: wherein it is demonstrated, by Matters of
Fact, as well as from the Principles of Philosophy, that INNATE QUALITIES do not
exist, and that the excellence of this Animal is altogether mechanical and not
in the Blood.
Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses - P. R. Kincaid and
John J. Stutzman
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and
Vicious Horses.
