STABLE POSTERS 



Last summer we published for free distribution our Hot-Weather Rules, 

 and, in resj)onse to applications from all parts of the country, sent out 

 more than 10,000 copies. The\' may l)e had this year, upon request. We 

 have also printed posters containing Drivers' Rules and Stable Rules. 

 These rules have been prepared \\'!th tlie greatest care, and have been sub- 

 mitted to the best experts and practical men that we could rtnd in Boston 

 and New York. They will be given to all who apply for them. 



BULLETINS 



The Association issued in 1910 a Bulletin on Watering and Bedding, 

 by Gilbert Tompkins. This Bulletin has been widely read and highly com- 

 mended. A revised edition was published in August, 1911, and it is now 

 reprinted, with some additions, at the end of this catalogue, where will be 

 found also a Bulletin on X'acations for Work-Horses. We believe it to be a 

 fact that an annual vacation for the work-horse, and especially for the old 

 work-horse, is a matter not onl}' of humanity, but of economy. 



Copies of all Bulletins issued by this Association may be had free 

 on application. The Bulletins thus far issued are: — 



No. 1. Watering and Bedding, by Gilbert Tompkins. 



No. 2. The Disposal of Old Horses, by Henry C. Merwin. 



No. 3. The Motor- Wagon and the Work-Horse, by Gilbert Tompkins. 



No. 4. Vacations for Work-Horses, by Gilbert Tompkins and Henry 

 C. Merwin. 



No. 5. A Bulletin on the Feeding of Work-Horses, by Gilbert 

 Tompkins, is in preparation. 



THE EQUINE SHOWER BATH 



For the past two years during excessively hot weather, this Association 

 lias maintained nine showering stations where horses were showered with 

 water from hose attached to a hydrant, or were sponged ofT by means of water 

 pails and sponges. These stations were at Upham's Corner, Copley Square, 

 Park Square, Charles St., Cambridge St., Minot St., Portland St., Scollay 

 Square, and Dock Square. We are indebted to the following persons and 

 corporations for the free use of their water and hose, and, in behalf of 

 the horses, we most earnestly thank them: — the Pilgrim Congregational 

 Church, the Franklin Savings Bank, M. F. Hanson & Co., the Boston Wine 

 and Spirit Company, the Oriental Tea Company, W. D. Quimby. Thou- 

 sands of animals were refreshed in this manner, and often a long line of 

 panting horses, exhausted by the heat, were waiting their turn. 



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