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6. Field Trips.—Practise judging horses of different breeds and types 
found in the region. Use score cards obtained from laboratory supply 
houses. Visit mule and horse markets and public sales to study animals 
of different types and learn causes for differences in price. Visit ship- 
ping points when horses are either going out or coming in. Visit stables 
of companies keeping a number of work animals and study their methods 
: F16. 269. Percheron brood mare marked to explain points: P, poll; Cr, crest; W, 
withers; L, loin; H, hock; B, locating bone-spavin; BI, locating bag-spavin; P, pastern; 
4 fotlock; C, cannon; K, knee: SP. shoulder point; M, muzzle. (Photo. from Percheron 
ocietv. 
of care and management, regarding feeding, grooming, prevention of disease, 
soreness and lameness; how are the harnesses cared for? Examine horses 
for different diseases and learn to treat them. 
7. Exercises.—Examine sound and unsound horses for defects, blem- 
ishes, bad habits, and unsoundness of any kind. Compare animals that 
are sound with those that are unsound in different particulars. Practise 
judging horses of light and heavy types. (Fig. 269.) Collect specimens 
of diseased and sound hoofs from veterinarians or from animals that have 
died in the region. Collect leg bones also. Jaws showing teeth from 
horses of different ages may be collected for future study. Test a sample 
of mare’s milk for butter fat with a Babcock tester. Determine from this 
now you would modify cow’s milk to suit an orphan colt being raised 
by hand. Practise braiding manes and tails, grooming horses, bandaging 
wounds, stitching cuts, disinfecting sores, cleansing and washing horse 
collars, clipping animals. blanketing, and trimmine hoofs.