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©ught to be left to protect the ears from dust, 

 flifs, iinQ sand, and other objects which are 

 troublesome to the animal when his ears are 

 deprived of the protection of the hair: — 

 secondly, when the ears are trimmed too close 

 inside, the horse is apt to take cold in the head 

 and brain ; the hair is also a protection against 

 rain, snow, and hail, wliich fall into the ears 

 of a cropped liorsc. The practice of trim- 

 ming the ears inside, which is very common, 

 indeed almost general, ought to be entirely 

 exploded ; for the animal would look much 

 handsom.er if only trimmed close to the sur- 

 face. Though this may not strike at first vkwj 

 the fact is no less evident. 



