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been driven with different and various bits yet don't go 

 well together, are numerous and ought to be divorced. 

 This may be because, although they are mates they are 

 not matches, and while one is worth $500 the mate is not 

 worth $50. If horses are not well matched in every re- 

 spect, especially in the mouthing, they must be driven 

 with different bits, and the length of the inner or outer 

 rein regulated according to the disposition of one or the 

 other of the team to pull with or against each other, and 

 thus fall into ^Hugging." 



SELLII^G ILL-MATCHED TEAMS. 



Selling the better horse first, at auction, to get a big 

 price to start with, so as to regulate the price of the mate, 

 is a common trick, and it frequently ^' takes," for which 

 the purchasers pay dearly. 



SMALL PER CENT. OF CARRIAGE HORSES. 



Only about five per cent, of the horses we see before 

 carriages in the parks are born carriage horses ; and as 

 for the rest, give us the carriage and haiTiess and we will 

 say nothing about the horses for that purpose. 



HORSES, CARRIAGES AXD HARNESS. 



The carriages and haniess are a credit to the resi^ective 

 artizans, but the horses reflect discredit on the owners. 

 In fact the supply is not equal to the demand ; and it 

 seems to us unaccountable that, notwithstanding the high 

 jn'ices that men are willing to pay, horses are not properly 

 bred for the carriage, so that the objectionable severity 

 of the bearing rein might be reduced to a minimum and 

 the desired style ensured. Truck and cart horses have 

 the bearing rein thrown loosely on the hames — not for 

 style, but merely to keep the horse from reaching down 

 to nibble at things. Some of the Xorman and Clydesdale 



