The Stud Farm: Or, Hints on Breeding for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Stud Farm: Or, Hints on Breeding for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road

General interest connected with breeding Horses. The subject recommended to the attention of Farmers. Increase of thorough-bred Stock, and decrease of Horses of other Classes. - Stage Coaches and Steam. - Delusive Arguments - Pre vailing notions of Farmers relative to breeding Horses, con sidered. - Comparison between Horses and Bullocks in point of profit. - Causes of Ill Luck explained - Causes of the superiority of the English Horse of the present day. Probable Effects of the present condition of Racing Affairs - Different Classes of Horses. Caprices of Nature. Selection of ap pr0priate Situation. Example. Soil. - Drainage. System of rearing Young Stock - Manure, Solid and Liquid - March of Improvement - Size of Paddocks. - Arrangement of Young Stock. - Grass in the Paddocks not essential. A. Grazing District not essential. The late Lord George Ben tinck's selection of a Stud Farm. - Arrangement of Buildings considered, and Hovels in the Paddocks - Plan for Buildings. - Ventilation. - Boussingault's calculation of the Elements respired by the Horse - Materials for Buildings - Hovels. Pine Varnish recommended. Gas Tar deprecated. Mate rials used for Paving - Frequent Cause of Strains. Drains.

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Excerpt from The Stud Farm: Or, Hints on Breeding for the Turf, the Chase, and the Road

For more than five and twenty years, the author of this little work has been engaged in the management of horses; and as during all that period he has never neglected any opportunity of acquiring practical information on every point connected therewith, he is not without hope that he may be able to throw out a few hints on this subject, that may be worth the reader's attention.

To extensive and experienced breeders, he cannot expect that many of his suggestions will be new; though, possibly, even they may "cull a spray" that may be useful. But the less practised, he trusts, will find in this little volume many hints which may be turned to good account. To the farmer, especially, the author desires to address himself, and would earnestly call his attention to a source of profit which, if zealously pursued, will assuredly exceed most, if not every other speculation coming within his province.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.