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CHECKING AND BLINDERS. 



daily repetition throughout 

 the country, resulting in such 

 frightful loss of life and prop- 

 erty. 



I would repeat that there 

 would be no more necessity 

 nor sense in using blinders 

 upon horses driven in harness, 

 if properly trained, than there 

 is in using them upon horses 

 under a saddle ; and who would 

 think of disfiguring and en- 

 cumbering a horse's head, no 

 matter how poor, With blinders 

 when used for the saddle ? 



iLook at these^ matters in a 

 reasonable, practical manner. 

 Imagine, yourself in the horse's place, and try to feel how you would 



Fig. 817. — Horses Excited by the Torture of the 

 Burrs Shown Below. 



Fig. 318.— Burrs. Hall Size. 



Fig. 319.— Side View, Showing Length 

 of Tacks. Half Size. 



like to be hampered and disabled as horses are forced to be while 

 subject to, the arbitrary: control and often to the most unreasonable 

 abuse of a vain or ignorant driver, while compelled to work hard.' 

 Treat the horse in the same spirit, of generosity you would be 

 yourself treated under like circumstances. Then there are other 



