CH. XI 



CARE OF HARNESS 



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pressure must be applied, but steel cannot be made 

 to look well without the burnisher. 



When harness is put away, it should be hung 

 against the wall on racks made for the purpose. 

 Iron racks, made open so that the air circulates 

 through them, are sold by makers of stable fittings. 

 A good arrangement is shown in Fig. 122. 



The crupper dock hangs upon a 

 small semi-circle which can be raised 

 or lowered, so that the back-strap 

 will hang taut to the pad. 



The pad rests upon a bracket of 

 the proper shape. The collar with 

 its tupfs han^s on a curved bracket 

 at the top. Under the pad bracket, 

 the bridle hangs on a bracket, also 

 made to the proper curve. If the 

 bracket has a rim to keep the bridle 

 from slipping off, this rim should 

 be cut through at the top, so that 

 the face-drop will lie in the notch, 

 and the bridle be kept straight, a 

 precaution to which reference has 

 been already made when describing 

 the bridle. When a bridle is huno- 

 on a hook, this face-drop is, of ne- 

 cessity, on one side or the other of 

 the hook, and the bridle will be bent out of shape. 



The traces and the reins are hune on small hooks 

 alongside of the harness. 



Fig. 122. 



