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evaporct'on That portion of the body where the circulation is most 

 feeble has to endure the effects of the process which can generate cold, 

 even during the extremity of the summer's heat. Cracked heels, grease, 

 etc. (see "Illustrated Horse Doctor") are the immediate results; and 

 the master who makes the welfare of his steed subservient to the idle 

 prejudices of his groom, is fitly punished in the lengthened period of his 

 animal's compulsory idleness, appropriately finished by the payment of 

 a long bill to the veterinary surgeon. 







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THE USOAL METHOD OF CUEANSINQ A HORSE S HEELS. 



The author seriously proposes that all horses' legs should be permitted 

 to retain the adornments which were sent by the bounty of nature for 

 the comfort of her creatures. The clipped or singed horse is a deformity : 

 the color is unnatural: the coat is dull and stubborn, looking most 

 unlike that pohshed surface which is native to the beautiful quadruped. 

 Moreover, those who live in a temperate climate should be content to 

 forego certain elegances which are natural to warmer regions : or, if 

 they will have tropical loveliness, they should encourage it by those 

 means which enable oranges to ripen in England, and not descend to 



