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 per mode to wear a cloth under the saddle : this can 

 more easily be drie I, and never can get hard, with a 

 little care. Horse cloths are certainly necessary, as 

 they keep the animals from draughts of air, and 

 from the access of dust to their coats ; but in this, 

 as in the stables, grooms err in point of heat, for 

 their horses are almost always too much cloathed. 

 In summer, a single sheet is fully sutiicient ; and in 

 winter, one woollen cloth alone is all that is requisite. 

 Neither hacks nor hunters should have head clothes ; 

 and breast clothes, thougli ornamental, are souie- 

 thing more than useless, for they keep a part, while 

 at rest, warm, which, as soon as the horse goes out, 

 is the part that most meets the air, and is most ex- 

 posed. 



STAG EVIL. 

 I shall waste no more time on this f-ital complaint 

 than is necessary to make persons acquainted with it 

 when it liappens. From long exposure to cold, from 

 a prick, or any wound made into a very tender part, 

 a horse sometimes becomes ratiier suddenly stiff in 

 his limbs; his jaws by degrees become set, his ears 

 pricked, his tail cocked, his eyes stare, with the haw 

 partly over them, and he looks animated, bat he 

 can hardly move:— this is stag evil, of which not one 

 horse in a tliousand recovers ; and, as such, it is, per- 

 haps, always better to relieve the suffering animal 

 by putting h.im to death, than to prolong his misery 

 l>y fruitless efforts. 



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