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while the other has a strap or chain about a foot long, which 

 attaches it to the head collar. The pole should reach about fifteen 

 inches beyond the point of the shoulder, and it should be fixed on 

 the side which is generally uppermost when the horse lies down, 

 so as not to be under him in that position. It is a very simple and 

 cheap apparatus, and any village blacksmith can make and apply 

 it. The following engraving will illustrate my meaning better than 

 the most detailed description without it. 



REMEDY FOR TEARING THE CLOTHES. 



Weaving is a mark of an irritable nervous system, beyond 

 which it is harmless, but quite incurable. It consists in a perpetual 

 moving of the head from one side of the manger to the other, with 

 an action like that of a wild beast in his den. The constant friction 

 soon wears out the collar-reins when there are two, and on that 

 account a single rein may be adopted in this particular instance 

 with advantage. 



Eating the litter is a peculiar appetite, which chiefly occurs 

 either in those horses which are kept short of hay on account of 

 their tendency to fatten, or when the animal possessing it has been 

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