| Show clipping street car males if you vou will notice you will see that all the street car mules are closely clipped in in the fall to tho the unknowing this doubtless looks cruel as nature seems to intend that the hair of animals shall grow long every fall to protect them against the cold it may be cruel in many cases but it is different with the street car mule it is a sanitary precaution his hair grows much longer in winter than alian that of a horse and when lie travels at a lively rate as lie ho is made to do in a car ho he perspires freely and the hair preserves the dampness for a long iong time hence when lie he is at rest defreezes lie he freezes and gets tho the rheumatism with his hair clipped ho he may be colder in the stable but he be is all right widle while traveling and dries oft off afterward without any unpleasant consequences it i is s not necessary todo to do this clipping 0 with horses unless they have unusually long hair they do not perspire like mules and hence do not need clipping except in the spring A horse that has once been clipped must be clipped ever afterward or lie will catch cold or suffer the heat badly globe democrat |
