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uniform manner, and will not be liable to fall off the rag. 

 With black harness, it is well to use black plate powder, which 

 will not show as much as the ordinary kind, in the event of 

 particles of it falling on .the harness. In the absence of plate 

 powder, whiting may be employed. 



PIPE-CLAYING. 



Pipe-clayed articles will usually consist of white leather 

 and white cotton, such as that used for girths, web stirrups, 

 web martingales and web breast-plates. Both leather and 

 cotton may be scrubbed with a scrubbing brush or water 

 brush, so as to clean them. The pipe-clay may be intimately 

 mixed with milk to the consistence of cream, and put on thin 

 with a sponge. When it has become quite dry, it should be 

 beaten off or brushed off. 



COTTON CLOTHING AND WOOLLEN CLOTHING. 



Cotton clothing can be washed in the ordinary way. 

 Woollen clothing being liable to shrink to a large extent if 

 immersed in hot water, had best be placed on a table and 

 scrubbed with soap and warm water. Water should be 

 sparingly applied ; and after the clothing has been scrubbed, 

 it should be well stretched, so as to help in preventing it 

 from shrinking. 



CARRIAGES. 



The floor of the wash-box or other place in which a carriage 

 is cleaned, should be paved, so that mud and grit may not be 

 splashed on to the wheels. When the carriage comes in after 

 use, the cushions and mats should be taken out, and there 

 should be as little delay as possible in removing all adherent 

 mud by means of water. If mud be allowed to dry on any 

 part of the vehicle, it will be liable to injuriously affect the 

 varnish or polish, and then it will not be easy to remove the 

 mud solely by water. We should here bear in mind that in 



