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disadvantages than even clipping under the more 

 protracted mode by scissors and comb. We need 

 only mention that the flame alone is sufficient to 

 render many horses very tedious and troublesome. 

 Some will not permit it to approach them, while 

 others stand trembling, and a sudden fit of per- 

 spiration at once proclaims this impossible. 



In singeing also, the skin is not unfrequently 

 burned, eyes are damaged, mane and tail dis- 

 figured. And lastly, it is a dirty and tedious 

 operation. It answers well for taking off the 

 thin hairs which continually shoot up during the 

 winter; but for effectually and expeditiously re- 

 moving the coat, the machine, when in proper 

 order and efficiently worked, is decidedly to be 

 preferred. 



The policy of removing the coat of horses in 

 winter has, as already stated, been vehemently 

 called in question. While great respect is en- 

 tertained for the opinions and the writer who sent 

 them forth to the world, we cannot admit the 

 constant baneful effects which are said to be 

 attached to the practice. 



Lengthened experience has taught that our 

 horses are kept in an artificial condition, and the 

 thick rough coat endowed by nature each win- 

 ter unfits them for that condition. This we 

 gather from the fact that in all cases of cab, hack, 

 omnibus, and job horses, also hunters, and even 

 some cart-horses with thick long coats, where 

 they are worked during the murky November 



