AS TO SOUNDNESS. 



We now come to the last of our subdivisions, which 

 contains six. They are — 



1. Commonly met with. 



2. All concealed (more or less). 



3. All unsoundnesses. 



Corns are among the last things you look for at an 

 examination, because in order to make sure of finding 

 them you must remove the fore shoes and have the corn 

 places carefully pared out. Removing the fore shoes is 

 deferred to the last by all veterinarians for obvious 

 reasons. You will constantly meet with those who do 

 not remove the shoes in searching for corns at an 

 examination as to soundness. This, however, is un- 

 pardonable in all cases where you have an opportunity. 

 Extremely bad corns can quite easily be detected with a 

 searcher without removing the shoe, but then such dis- 

 cover themselves also by causing lameness. It is the 

 slight corns for which you are looking, quite as much as 

 for the more aggravated ; and, in order to find them, you 

 will have to have the heel pared out thoroughly. You 

 must remember that the extravasated blood constituting 

 a slight corn is not embedded in the crumbly exfoHating 

 material that the knife first cuts through, but is embedded 

 in the living hor?i beneath, so that you will have to clear 

 away all this debris thoroughly before you will find a 

 small corn. All corns are very properly regarded as 

 unsoundnesses ; because, if they do not already lame the 

 horse, the feet require more than ordinary skill on the 



