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road car, or on a steamboat for conveyance to any place, 

 without warm bandages on every leg. Let the strings 

 always be tied either on the in or outside and middle of 

 the leg, or equi-distant between the knee and pastern joint, 

 where they will not interfere with the horse's movements. 

 Bandages are only applied on the fore legs from the knee 

 to the pastern, and on the hind legs from hock to pastern. 

 Tying horses in the stable with good judgment and 

 care, is perhaps the best preventive of accidents to them, 

 and its neglect is certainly one of the most prolific causes 

 of injuries during the night, when no person is near tc 

 render assistance in the struggles of entanglement with 

 the halter improperly fastened to the manger and fixed 

 upon the head of the horse. In an extensive veterinary 

 practice of long duration in Philadelphia, many, very many 

 cases of injury to valuable horses have we seen, which 

 were classed by the stableman, under the very convenient 

 covering called accident, and brought about by the indiffer- 

 ent, careless, and unsafe way in which the animals had been 

 tied in their stalls. Thus, we have cut heel of the hind 

 foot, resembling scratches, by the halter rubbing and cut- 

 ting into the flesh — wry-neck, from the animal being cast 

 in the stall, by the head being held during, perhaps the 

 most of the night, in a bent position — getting loose by slip- 

 ping the head halter or untying the halter's shank and 

 gorging from the corn-bin and finally dying of colic; or if 

 no feed be within reach, the other tied horses are at the 

 mercy of the loose one and defend themselves by kicking 



