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expansion of the hoof will he productive of little 

 benefit, from the impossibility of restoring to 

 these parts their natural functions and elasti- 

 city. 



It is a practice with most farriers to draw 

 the sole with a view to effect a cure ; but, inde- 

 pendently of the barbarity of this operation, it 

 will ever be found useless, and will rather have 

 a tendency to increase the disease, by removing 

 one of the principal sources of resistance to the 

 contraction of the walls of the foot. Yet we see 

 on the shop door of every village blacksmith, 

 horses soles nailed up in regular order — trophies 

 of his ignorance and his cruelty. 



CORNS. 



This troublesome disease also takes its origin 

 from bad shoeing. 



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