Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1901 — HATS FOR HORSES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HATS FOR HORSES

Some of the Season’s Styles in Equine Headgear.

During the recent hot spell city harness dealers were unable to keep enough horse sunbonnets on hand to supply the

demand. In New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other big cities bonnets were placed upon the heads of light livery horses, as well as teaming horses, and it is asserted that the use of the headgear is responsible for a decrease in the number of horses dying as a result of heat pro s t ration. Humane Society members have approved of this method ’of lessening the horse’s sufferings. They would be pleased if a law were adopted making it compulsory for owners to protect their horses from the sun by means of a bonnet,

according to the secretary of the Mis-, souri Humane Society. He said the other day to a St. Louis reporter: “The horse snnbonnet has my approval. It is a humane instrument, and every horse owner who cares for the comfort of the animal should procure one. The bonnets have not been generally used until this summer, and as a result of their use I notice a falling off in the number of horse heat prostrations.” The accompanying illustrations khow some of the numerons styles of horse headgear.