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Show MLU.SEt)FCilE K-RE1N. MLcry It F.nt His Unnti a Horso and Its Evil Effects. In recent, vmrs there has been n con sidcrable falling oH In the. pr-icl'c of ovvreheekinif, s-in th" D.-nver Post, llorei with their heals cruelly clocked up merely for npp trance's s tke am becoming fewer. People of Hood taste see lint at, v appp.irniic of spirit ami. Ktyiu so oblalncd Is bogu4 IVnp'e of cmnl seneseo that an v device, de-vice, of hariieM which nukes a horse uiicnmroriahlacinuiit fail 1 1 d.-tniiilih tha i erviiiiH Htrengih and vitality which are ne. tied for something pise Common -ense Iciu'Ihb that the more comfortable a horso U the more and bolter work he can do. All this I-apart I-apart from the horse's own rlaht to be as happy ai d comtnrtable as possible and in liavu th right abrliUel only by neceslty, not. by vanity or Indifference. Indiffer-ence. There are s ouo princ pies governing gov-erning tie use of the check-rc In wldch pverybotlv who cares for a louse's comfort com-fort agrees to. Drait hoses sliould have ihe frets use of their heads, uti hindered by check lehn. Driving I horses Khouhl be clvcked only when' 'neci-ssary to their proper conir.il, ami 'when stifimlng the cheeks should lie rcmov d. Tho use of an uuconiforin-ble. uuconiforin-ble. vexations or cruel eheck reln mere-I mere-I ly lor ihe sake of "lookn'1 is wholly In- defensible Hiid shows poor tasie, poor Judgment and a cruel disposition. (These are some of ihe thing horsemen I say about chcck-reii; "The ehect-, ehect-, relit Is extremely cruel u htodrar.oo to 'speed and a otu-n of disease. It causes hiuiolillntr, painful breathing, limbs the animals power and shortens his life. ' Dr. Fleming, chief veterinary sur genu, British army. "Check reins cause more stilt shoulders nnd weak knees man ail other causes combined." 'Chief of Paris Horse Hoiplial. Henry Hen-ry Merwlu says: "I wish the overdraw check had nevijr been Invented, It Is often an Instrument of torture. Ra- rev. the fntonns trainer, said: "Colts Khmilrt not bo made to ndure the bit-Imr bit-Imr bridle over fifteen minutes at. a time, l'o keep it on half A day, as some do, Is to lull ct one of the wotst ptiul-hioeiits pussllile. Some colts are permanently lujurod by li." "I he cheek-rein painfully Hindus the neck, Injures the mouth, irritate-, tortures. It, iiImi cause- 'howed' knees." Dr. Kltcltlou, vetcrlimr.x author. Dr. Prit-elmril, Prit-elmril, Roval Veterlnar College, wtys: ''The eheck-ieln Is a great cruelly. It Interferes with breathing, Injures the mouth, Induces pmalysls and anise btumbliug." |