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Title: The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Axe, J. Wortley
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : Gresham
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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officer to the Midland EailwayCompany, who have already recognized its merits and brought it into use.The appliance consists of a rope, one end of which is attached to a ring infront of the nose-band by means of a spring hook working on a swivel.The rope then passes upward, and over an adjustable pulley-wheel fixedin a slot in the partition between the stall and the coupe. Attached to 466 THE TRANSIT OF HORSES its other end is a small weight, surmounted l)y a sjjiral spring, and confinedin a small box (fig. 653). By this arrangement only one rope is engaged inthe tying, and that is entirely removed from possible contact with the feet.Instead of the horse being bound down by the head, he enjoys comparativefreedom and comfort, and indeed such an amount of liberty as will enablehim to recover himself from any awkward position in which he may, fromrestiveness or other cause, become involved. Another conspicuous andimportant advantage of the fastenings of this appliance is that, should he
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Fig. 653.—Bartrums Tethering Appiiratu fail to free himself, he can be set at liberty at once, through the door ofthe coupe, by removing the spring hook from the ring in the nose-band.These and other solid advantages are presented by the Bartrum device,which promise to do away with much of that suffering and loss whichattend the transit of horses by rail. Another serious objection to horse-boxes is that the padding whichprevents injury to the skin is not removable for purposes of disinfectionor ordinary cleansing, hence the danger of infectious disease, even if theutmost care were exercised. The ordure from the last inmate commonlyremains, despite Rule 15 (Transit Order, Animals Act), which requiresthat the vehicle shall be thoroughly cleansed according to specified direc-tions therein contained. Neglect to comply with these orders carries LAND CARRIAGE 467 certain—or, rather, ?«icertain—penalties, since the railway servants habitu-ally disregard them. Besides the horse-box the

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