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ful diseases, cribbers do not attempt the act, and it 

 may be regarded as a favorable sign when such a 

 horse returns to his old practice. 



All sorts of preventatives have been resorted to, 

 including muzzling with steel rods fixed to the bit. 

 The use of a broad leather strap around the throat is 

 not to be recommended because it has got to grad- 

 ually produce distortion or constriction of the wind- 

 pipe and thus cause roaring. Our inquirer asks 

 whether placing the horse in a stall devoid of any- 

 thing upon which to get hold would be a preventa- 

 tive. Well, with the plurality of horses it may ; but 

 we have seen some old and inveterate offenders thus 

 placed who practiced the vice upon their knees, and 

 upon the hard floor while lying down." 



