No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 419 



To shoe for overreacliing, pare all lour feet down us much as pos- 

 sible, giving- them as an even bearing as can be done, then putting 

 on shoes to correspond with the work intendiMl. If the shoes are to 

 have calks, shoe the front feet witli low toes, with slightly elevated 

 heels, letting the shoes run well back behind the foot. The hind- 

 shoes with the toe calk set back from the toe of the shoe as much 

 as can bo, letting the hoof project over the shoe at least one-fourth 

 of an inch, with the heels running back behind, with heels higher 

 than toe. 



Side weighting on the hindfeet, letting the outside heel be longer 

 than the inside, helps to spread the legs when in motion throwing 

 the hind feet outside of the front ones. This mode of shoeing ap- 

 plies to road and general purpose horses. 



FOUNDER. 



This disease may come from various causes, such as letting a horse 

 stand in a draught when warm, watering or feeding when too warm, 

 and it will show itself in this way: The horse will be very nervous, 

 shifting from one foot to the other, feet in a high state of fever, 

 being very hot and sensitive to the touch of the hammer or hoof 

 tester, and will lay down in great pain. 



TREATMENT. 



Remove the shoes as carefully as possible, paring the foot well 

 down with hoof parers and rasp them, taking the round knife and 

 cutting in at the toe directly opposite the point of the frog, just 

 where the sole joins on the outside wall, cutting back until you 

 start the blood well, and at the same time rubbing the leg down- 

 ward towards the hoof, making the blood to run freely to the 

 amount of a quart, then filling the opening with oakum, putting on 

 a leather sole, tacking on an old plate shoe with about four nails, 

 putting the foot in a flaxseed poultice, keeping it well moistened for 

 forty-eight hours, feeding mashes to loosen the bowels. 



If this treatment is followed closely, there is not much danger of 

 drop sole or seedy toe; but if the case has become chronic, shoe with 

 a bar shoe or the centre bearing shoe No. 1, taking care not to leave 

 the shoe on too long, so as to let the shoe loose, using small nails as 

 the work will permit, rubbing the coronet every two or three weeks 

 with a Spanish fly blister, following with veterinary petroleum to 

 toughen and make the hoof grow faster, filling the bottom, when 

 not in use. with White Rock Hoof Packing, to help allay inflamma- 

 tion that mav exist. 



