234 MANAGEMENT OUTDOORS 



Except under management of most unusual 

 skill, any assemblage of horses is liable to 

 stampede. I note this in a camp which has 

 lost two men killed and one wounded, with 

 two horses killed and two wounded within the 

 week, fair evidence that stampedes are danger- 

 ous. But the danger is greatest where horse 

 lines and camp lines are set close abreast, so 

 that, if the horses stampede, the men are 

 trampled to death. A stampede from herd or 

 pasture is seldom the cause of serious accidents. 



Docking or trimming tails, and hogging 

 manes are hardly wise outdoors, considering 

 that the mane and tail are special devices of 

 nature to keep off flies. As horse lines are an 

 excellent breeding ground for flies, it is pre- 

 cisely on these lines that manes and tails are 

 needed. 



Further, it seems unwise to remove with a 

 brush that natural oil in hair and skin which 

 preserves a horse from being left stark naked to 

 the rain. The grease which merely clogs the 

 brush, was needed by the horse, and if it is 

 taken away it should be replaced. Horses if 

 groomed outdoors should be groomed and 

 oiled so that the hair may shed rain and keep 

 the skin dry. 



It is argued that the massage action of good 



