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Painless Horse-branding-.
Mr. Charles Brown, of New Ply-
mouth (N.Z.) supplies the following
suggestive information :-I saw last
month an enquiry for a painless way
of branding horses. I think that any
chemist could make a depilatory
strong enough to brand horses and
cattle by burning the hair, and
killing tile roots without: causing
much pain. The inventor of some-
thing of the kind, and patented, died
last month at Stratford, but as to
whether the patent was for fluid or
for the branding-with a corrosive
fluid, I am unable to say. A friend
pf mine in Malta, some 50 years ago,
made a white star on the forehead
of his black horse by filling a small
pillbox with caustic lime, turning it
on to the place for the star, and
pouring water through a hole in the
top side. This killed the hair but
not the roots, as the hair grew again,
but white. I have had the same
result from killing a skin disease on
an iron grey horse with strong
acetic acid. This I know was pain-
less to the horse and to me. I raised
a large blister on my thumb in
j applying the acetic acid.
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