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308 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



A dray, or cart-horfe, fhould be finooth trim- 

 med about the head and ears, his mane pulled 

 even, and reduced to a handfome length and 

 thicknefs, but not fo much of it left as to har- 

 bour dirt and fweat. His tail mould be a fwitch 

 of a moderate length, and his legs invariably 

 clofe trimmed, coach-horfe falhion. 



Afk an old horfe- keeper, who is fo bewitched 

 with the beauty, and even excellence, of hairy 

 legs, that he cannot conceive any horfe able to 

 draw with fmooth ones, and he will tell you di- 

 reclly, and even make you believe it, unlefs you 

 are upon your guard, " that there is no poflibi- 

 lity of keeping a cart-horfe clean, and free 

 from greafe, if you take the hair from his legs, 

 " which fcreens them from the dirt." What a 

 powerful fophifm? But the mifery of the matter 

 is, thefe hairy-legged horfes are perpetually apt 

 to be greafed, from the (lighten 1 neglect, and then 

 the fophiftsare at laft under the neceflity of going 

 fundamentally to work, and of cutting off the 

 facred locks, beneath which they find cakes of 

 dirt and fweat, which have occafioned all the 

 mifchief, and which need never have happened, 

 but for neglecting the falutary operation of the 

 comb and fciffars. 



Plenty of warm water and foap, if neceffary, 

 fhould be allowed once a week, for the legs and 

 feet of horfes, which are fubje6l to heat and 

 fwellings therein ; care fhould be taken, that 



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