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being destroyed. He is the victim of colic, always the subject of 

 some form of indigestion or other obscure ailment, and by his 

 hoggish grunting is a nuisance to the farm-yard, unless mana- 

 cled with some of the devices for keeping him fi'om practicing 

 his vicious habit. If all this does not constitute a case of un- 

 soundness, I am at a loss to know what w^ould. 



Treatment. — A strap tied around the neck close to the jaw 

 will prevent the practice of cribbing ; but it is also liable to 

 cause thick wind, which is a worse trouble. Bar-soap rubbed 

 on the trough, or whatever in the stall the horse gets hold of 

 with his teeth, is recommended to prevent his taking hold of 

 it. Or take three bars of iron curved in the shape of a sleigh- 

 runner, one placed at each side of the face, the turn being 

 downward and looking forward, and fastened together at the 

 to23 by a headstall, and also a curved bar running behind the 

 chin, and to which the third curved bar is fastened in the middle 

 and which passes down, and the turn passes under the chin and 

 mouth. Thus we have an iron sleigh, with three runners, hung 

 to the horse's head. But a bar passes across the noses of these 

 three runners to hold them in place; also a strap loosely passes 

 over the nose, joining the two sides. By this arrangement the 

 horse can raise his head to eat hay, but when he brings his 

 head dowm to the trough he finds the middle runner of his 

 sleigh across his mouth. The strap across his nose keeps him. 

 from throwing the machine back from under his mouth. The' 

 apparatus is taken oif for the horse to eat his grain or feed; 

 given in the trough. Make his rack high. 

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