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Clipped Roadsters

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
March
Year
1884
Copyright
Public Domain
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"liorses ehpptxl here. Is a sign displayed at numerous livery stables. "We hape clipped one hundred and flfty horses this year," said a horseman yesterday. A löng-coated horse can't get fat. Wben clipped the horses eat less but gain flesh rapldly. Drive a horse with a lonfr coat and he is soon covered with pcrspiratíon. Then, if the weather is eold, the perspiration freezes about the hair, forming tiny icicles. Livery borses brought into the barn after a long drive and covered with blankets are stiU wet the next morning. Henee they tako cold and are often seriously ill. Here is a horse you could stand a block away Erom and couut the ribs of two weeks ago. He was clipped, and nowyou may see how sleek and sat he is. Before the clipping he ate ñfteen quarts of oats and a quantity of hay daily. Now we feed him the same quantity of oats, but ie doesn't eat all, and hay he scarcely souches. Then he was a light chestnut. Sow he is of a pretty mouse color. The bay horse was ciipped in October. His iair is growing long and thick, and in January or Feuruary he will need the hears again. Nearly all horsemen are ín favor of clipping. The best veterinary surgeons in the country say it is rreatly beneficia!. When a horse has ong hair it is difliculttokeep him clean. Se is llKe a man, wno, wun ïong iiau, must freouentlv shampoo his head to All the clipping in this city is done with shears by hand. In some other places roller clippers, such as the barbers remove short hairs from the back of the neck with, are used. Work can be done much faster with shears. We charge four dollars for clipping a horse. At some other places the work is done for three dollars and three dollars and a half. Take a long-coated horse, valued at one hundred dollars, and by clipping him you will in many instances enhance bis value twenty-five per cent." "Twenty-four hours after a longcoated horse is driven," said the proprietor of another stable, "especially in the winter, he is süll wet. A cold sweat comes on and the long hairs prevent drying. Horses ought to be clipped once a year at least. October is the best time, as the hair of a horse then clipped can grow before the very cold weather comes. We clip as close to the skin as possible. The charge is from three to six dollars, according to the labor required. As a rule two men clip a horse in about three hours and a half. Some horses.especially of the fretful kind.have to be worked on all day. Most horses clipped are buggy horses and roadsters, thougfh the shears are sometimes run

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News