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In running a horse without winkers for the first time, 

 great care is necessary, and the whip should be kept in 

 the socket. 



Good plain solid leather harness invariably gives 

 satisfaction. The writer supplied a set recently with 

 square brass wire furniture, straight flapped imperial pad, 

 square winkers, light kicking strap and tugs, brown flat 

 lined Oxford reins, London topped collar, and revolving 

 mouthed guard bit. This model set, (as the customer 

 called it) was made without breast-plate, face-piece, curb, 

 hip-pieces, bearing rein, throat-band swivels, pad-cloth, or 

 ornaments whatever; the only extra in the set being, that 

 the belly-band was made to buckle both on the near and 

 off sides, for easy access and handiness in releasing the 

 horse from the shafts in the event of accident or falling 

 down while in the shafts. 



It is a cruel mistake to run a horse in a four-wheeler 

 without a breech-band, which should be so adjusted as 

 to keep the vehicle from forcing the shaft-tugs from their 

 proper position, in going down hill. 



For piped throated collars the hames are required to 

 be specially made in every case, the ordinary formed plain 

 hames being difficult to adjust, and altogether unsafe. 



