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HORSE SENSE"— Common Sense Scientific Combination. 



This radical improvement in Hame and Tug construction is tlie invention of Dr 

 J. C. Curryer, and is ttie result of several years of study and experimenting. 



This new method of draft upon tho shouldei-s Is just as the horse would have it if 

 he could, as it is constructed on scientitic principles to insure comfort and prevent 

 injury to the shoulders of our hard-working horses. It obviates the necessity 

 of sweat-pads, greatly diminishes the liability of producing sweeny, collar boils, 

 galled shoulders and sore necks. The collar is prevented from spreading or pulling 

 away from the neck, or moving about on the shoulders as the horse walks in his 

 work. And the collar-bearing is evenly distributed over the entire shoulder, as the 

 draft is directly backward, which suggested its name, "Horse Sense." 



«The principle of raising and lowering the draft on the shoulders Is another com- 

 mon sense as well as "Horse Sense" method to meet the difference in horse shoulders 

 and the many kinds of work they have to do. If the collar is too long (as is often the 

 case) the draft can be raised to the required point and the horse is at once relieved 

 from working with too low a draft. If it is too high it can be lowered just as easily. 



Our horses do all their heavy harness work from the shoulders, and the best fl't- 

 tings with the least movement on the shoulders (like carrying anything on our 

 shoulders) will greatly relieve the horse from suffering and be a decided benefit to his 

 owner— insuring the work being done with less fretting and chafing, with little pros- 

 pect of balking when not overloaded and properly driven. 



The plates H and I (as seen in both figs. 1 and 2) are made to change the shape of 

 the collar for a better adaptation or fitting of the collar to the neck of the horse. 

 Plate H will change the usually straight hame into a more circular form which will 

 better fit the thick or "stag necked" horse through its central portion, as seen in fig. 

 2, while the plate I, on the straight hame, will force the collar to the depression in 

 the sides of the thin-necked horse, as seen in fig. 1. These plates fill a long-felt want 

 and will last a life-time, and considering the advantage to the horse which needs 

 neither, their cost is simply trifling. 



BENEFITS SUMMED UP 1st— Better fitting collar. 2d— Saving the expense 



of sweating-pads. M— No wearing of the collar or drawing it out of shape by the 

 hame-tug pulling hard into it. 4th— Direct backward draft instead of the usual ro- 

 tary pressure on the horse's shoulders, by its extreme outside bearing, as usually 

 done. .5th— Raising or lowering the draft with a range of two inches, at every third 

 of an inch, to accommodate the draft to different shaped shoulders and the work to 

 be done, which can be done easily and quickly. 6th— Saving the irritability of horses 

 from sore necks, painful pressure of the collar on sore shoulders, sweeny and should- 

 er lameness in many cases, as well as doing ranch towards insuring trtie pullers in- 

 stead of making balkers. 7th— Best of all that th.'se improvements should cost but 

 little more than supplying the same part- f'l w with Lrood material) to the harness 

 now in use. Address "HORSE SENSE'" tuG CO., 



.217 296 Selby ^ve., ST. PAUL, MINN. 



