AS TO SOUNDNESS, 



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(Fig. 9), greater liberty to bag or bulge forward. Now 

 there must be a comfortable filling of the parts at all 

 times, so that, the pressure being alike in both cases, 

 a bent hock will always allow of a more pronounced 

 appearance of bog-spavin than a straight hock withoui" 

 undue filling of the bursa. 



Tig. 9. 



Next to the presence or absence of lameness, I always 

 judge of these cases by the amount of resistance they 

 present on pressure. If I find them soft and yielding, 

 and not tense and unyielding, I am satisfied that there 

 is a normal condition of the parts, and that there is no 

 disease in the joint calling for an increased secretion 



