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highly conducive to defective action, such as *' digging " 

 of the toes and stumbUng ; we also find enlargements 

 on the outside of the pastern and foot which render the 

 limb stiff and awkward. 



In-turned toes can only be so to a slight degree with- 

 out being accompanied by organic defects amounting to 

 unsoundness, so that if there be this condition to any 

 extent, organic defects will almost be sure to be found, 

 when you will reject the horse on their account. If no 

 organic defects are present, of course you will have to 

 pass the horse just as you would with any other defect 

 of form. 



We now come to our fourth division in classification, 

 which is injuries. Eight forms are set down, but as 

 every injury to the foot is aggravated when occurring to 

 feet deprived of the salutary influence of its nerves, we 

 shall consider first of all the foot that has been deprived 

 of its nerves (unnerved). 



