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Clipping is a very useful process in horses that grow a 

 very heavy coat of hair during the fall and winter; such 

 animals when worked sweat freely and are apt to get 

 chilled unless clipped, colds and lung troubles resulting 

 from the sweat being retained in the hair. Horses that 

 are blanketed continually while in the stable seldom re- 

 quire clipping, the tendency of such clothing being to 

 render the hair fine, thin and glossy; show cattle are 

 clothed for the same purpose as are show sheep. Some 

 people make a practice of clipping the back and sides of 

 horses, leaving the hair on the limbs and belly. Clipped 

 horses should be blanketed when forced to stand outside. 



Inflammation and its Signs. When speaking of sick 

 animals certain terms are used, supposed to be intelligible 

 to everybody; the word inflammation is often used, and 

 when used alone means practically nothing; informa- 

 tion is only afforded when one states where that inflam- 

 mation occurred, e. g., the expression, inflammation of 

 the lungs (pneumonia) means that the inflammatory pro- 

 cess involved the lungs; pleurisy, inflammation of the 

 pleura involved that membrane, and so on; inflammation 

 of the bowels (enteritis), of the peritoneum (peritonitis), 

 of the liver (hepatitis), of the kidney (nephritis), of the 

 womb (metritis), all tell the listener the location of the 

 trouble. 



The inflammatory process is liable to occur in almost 

 any part; a brief description of the changes taking place 

 in that part will be interesting. Inflammation is the suc- 

 cession of changes taking place in a living tissue, the re- 

 sult of injury, provided that injury is not severe enough 

 to at once destroy the vitality and structure of the tissue; 



