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however: one of which consists in the regular employment of a rough 
horsehair cloth, made like that for hops, outside the rug, and which is so 
disagreeable to the teeth, that no horse will attempt to tear it; the other 
is carried out by means of a pole of ash, about three-quarters of an inch 
in diameter, with an iron eye attached to each end. One of these is 
fastened, by means of a short leathern strap and buckle, to the side cf 
the roller-pad, while the other has a strap or chain about a foot long, 
which attaches it to the head collar. The pole should reach about fifteen 
inches beyond the point of the shoulder, and it should be fixed on the 
side which is generally uppermost when the horse lies down, so as not to 
be under him in that position. It is a very simple and cheap apparatus, 
and any village blacksmith can make and apply it. The following 
engraving will illustrate my meaning better than the most detailed 
description without it. 
REMEDY FOR TEARING THE CLOTHES, 
Weavine is a mark of an irritable nervous system, beyond which it is 
harmless, but quite incurable. It consists in a perpetual moving of the 
head from one side of the manger to the other, with an action like that of 
a wild beast in his den. The constant friction soon wears out the collar- 
reins when there are two, and on that account a single rein may be 
adopted in this particular instance with advantage. 
EATING THE LITTER isa peculiar appetite, which chiefly occurs either in 
those horses which are kept short of hay on account of their tendency to 
fatten, or when the animal possessing it has been stabled for a very long 
time together and requires a change. In the former case nothing but 
the muzzle will be of the slightest service, but in the latter a run at grass, 
or soiling indoors fer a month or two, will remedy the disorder of the 
