Chafing Under The Collar.--a
tleinan wlio had tncd the plan successfulj ly for fivo years, communicates the an? nexed inethod of preveuting horees frora chafing under the collar. He saya he gets a piece of leather and has wbat he terms a falae collar made, whioh is siwply a piece of leather cut in such a shape as to lic singly, betweeu tlie shouldersof the liorse and the collar. This fends off all the friction, as the collar slips aud moves on the loather, and not on tho shoulders of the Lorsc. Chafing is eansed by friction, henee, you see, the thing is eutirely plausible. Some persons put pads or sheep skins under the collar; these, they say, do as much hurt as good, for they augment the heat. A singlo pieee of leather, like that composing the outsido of a collar, without any lining or stuffing, he assures u, is botter thau any thing
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