Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1875 — Bob-Tailed Horses. [ARTICLE]

Bob-Tailed Horses.

There are at least some things in which progress has been made in the right direction of late, and, notably, one of them is evidenced by the entire abandonment of the bob-tail fashion so prevalent twenty years ago. To anyone who can recall the long rows of stalls in almost every horse-dealer’s stable, city or country, with its paraphernalia of ropes and pullies and bars, and its kit of docking, pricking, nicking and searing tools, and who has ever witnessed "the barbarities practiced by the inevitable “boss doctor” upon the poor brutes given over *to his tender mercy in the name of fashion, it is a great relief to know that such cruelties have had their day. Now let clipping follow suit, and all horse-flesh will breathe easier, and only wonder “ what next V'—Prairie Farmer. — Business. A salesman in one of the principal wholesale manufacturing houses in New York sold $140,000 worth ofigoods in a trip of ten days during the past month.