Excerpt from The New American Pocket Farrier and Farmer's Guide: In the Choice and Management of Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep and Swine Double the space in a foal, new foaled, between the knee and withers, will, in general, be the height of him when a complete horse. Foals that are of stirring spirits, wanton of disposition, active in leaping, running and chasing, ever leading the way and striving for mastery, always prove horses of excellent mettle; those of a contrary disposition are most commonly jades. There is one general rule which experience has proved to be a good one, and that is - No Footy No Horse. A horse's ability, and continuance in goodness, is known by his hoofs. If they are strong, smooth, hard, deep, tough, upright, and hollow, that horse cannot be a bad one. The pocket farrier, commencing at page 39, contains a series of directions how to use a horse on a journey, with receipts and cures for the different diseases to which he is liable. The prescriptions have not been hastily jumbled together, but are experimentally efficacious, and have been proved by a practice of thirty years. By consulting these pages you will at once see, lst. What methods are best to be used if your horses fall lame; 2d. What medicines are proper to give them when sick, - and 3d. How to direct the operations, and escape the impositions, of ignorant men. Annexed to these, the reader will find directions for the management of Cows, Calves, Sheep, Swine, Agricultural Receipts, the management of the Dairy, Fruittrees, Flax, Hemp, the improvement of waste lands, and miscellaneous useful information. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.