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the muscle. The tail is kept tied around to the side for eight 

 or i CD days. The wound should be washed and dressed everv 

 day and a bandage applied. Use our Healing Lotion as a dress- 

 ing to heal the sore. If the muscle that is too short is fully devel- 

 oped, the tail can as a general thing be straightened; but if the 

 muscle is not developed fully, a cure is hopeless. 



Fig. 38. Hand-Clippers. 



CLIPPING HORSES. 



This is practiced to a considerable extent in some parts of this 

 country during the winter and spring, when horses' hair is heavy, 

 thick and long. The points in favor of clipping are that a horse 

 will drive easier and freer and is not so liable to take cold as 

 when they have such a heavy coat of hair. When a horse witii 

 very long, heavy hair becomes warmed up and sweaty, it takes 

 him a long time to dry off; while a horse with short hair will dry 

 off in a few minutes. To make a universal practice of clipping 

 horses, we would condemn it, but in certain cases it is 

 all right. Nature grows the thick, long coat of hair on a horse 

 as a protection against the cold; therefore if we remove it, we 

 must provide an artificial protection during the cold weather 

 while the horse is not driving. A blanket should be carried to 

 put over the horse while standing in the street if the air is cold 

 or chilly; and one is to be worn in the stable during the cold 



