GROOMING HORSES
CLEANLINESS ASSURED. The objects of grooming horses are cleanliness, prevention of disease, and improvement of the animal’s condition and appearance. The necessity for, and the amount of, grooming required vary with the conditions under which the horses are fed and the faster they are worked, the greater should be the care exercised in getting the skin into perfection condition. The importance of grooming as a preventive of disease must not be under-rated. While it is true that mange ahd other skin diseases are not produced by dirt, it is nevertheless equally true that they are most frequently met with, spread with greater rapidity and are more difficult to eradicate, where dirty conditions prevail.
Extra grooming, especially massage of any kind, has a great effect in improving the general condi'ion of the horse, and is one of the means whereby the body is kept fit aS well as clean.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1938, Page 3
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