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Show ! How lee Cotter Bcwm Horaea. The danger of cutting ice before it has attained a thickness of eight inches or more is great, and numbers of horses have been lost by their breaking through the ice vhile working the plows. Old ioemen y, however, that by patbng Blipriooso around the animals neck before be-fore it goes under the ice, the work of cetting it out is not great The acfaon of the noose stops the animal's breath-imr breath-imr and soon causes the body to become inflated with wind so that it will float on the surface, when it is easily hauled out upon the ice. Boston Record.. |