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THE ETHICS OF HORSE MANAGEMENT. 
This is not the place to speak of the cases in which 
“firing” is absolutely necessary; this must be left to the 
judgment of the properly-trained veterinary surgeon; but 
this much I may say, that instances have occurred in recent 
years—such as severe sprains of the back tendons, and dis¬ 
ease of the hocks—in which, formerly, I would have employed 
the hot iron, but only used mild blisters, depending chiefly 
for recovery upon an absolute rest as possible. And I find 
my success is not a wdiit diminished by the change. I have 
made up my mind to use the cautery only as a dernier ressort , 
when serious disease is really present, and when everything 
else has been tried without avail .—The Animal World. 
THE ETHICS OE HORSE MANAGEMENT. 
In a country like our own, teeming with the finest and 
best horses in the world, and where every one fancies he 
knows much or all that pertains to horses and horsemanship, 
it is very disappointing, though by no means surprising, to 
find that even among those whose business or pleasure leads 
them into direct relations with that animal, there are some 
who appear never to have acquired the slightest knowledge 
of its temper, of its disposition, or of the way in which its 
strength and other invaluable qualities may be best utilised 
with comfort to itself and profit to its owner. We have 
daily evidence of this in our streets, and never have to travel 
far to seek for examples of some kind of mismanagement that 
not only mars the utility of the horse, and militates against 
its health and longevity, but, being contrary and irritating to 
its temper, either makes it irascible and vicious, or sulky and 
stubborn; and, consequently, either more or less dangerous 
or useless. This management, or rather mismanagement, is 
in very many instances due to ignorance and want of obser¬ 
vation; for a man may be the whole of his life among horses, 
and ride or drive them like his neighbours, and yet know but 
little of that creature's disposition, or the best way to con¬ 
trol it when it evinces something unusual in the way of ill- 
temper. But it may also be owing to a hasty or brutal 
manner, coupled, perhaps, with ignorance, and this, it is 
scarcely necessary to say, constitutes the worst and most un¬ 
pardonable form of mismanagement. How often do we not 
see poor horses beaten merely because they are more intelli- 
