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are not soft corns or others of a serious character, and the 

 horse is a very superior animal, with good hoofs, going 

 sound at the time, I should not reject him for my own 

 use. Where the feet are otherwise good, with care and 

 proper shoeing corns are soon cured. I would give the 

 owner a short time to try and cure soft corns if 

 the horse is otherwise sufficiently good. While a corn 

 of any kind exists, the animal is UNSOUND. 



Corns may be produced in so short a period, that, 

 should you discover them immediately after purchase, 

 you cannot return the horse, unless you can prove they 

 existed prior to purchase. 



If any reader of this, with feet most tender from bad 

 corns, is wincing away in tight boots, he should be 

 informed that there is no analogy between human 

 corns and those of horses. The corn of the horse 

 is a bruise similar to that caused by pinching up 

 a piece of the skin, so as to leave the blood under- 

 neath, and which, previous to going away, assumes 

 a black appearance. In the horse it is best to cut 

 them out, and keep off the pressure till thoroughly 

 recovered. Soft corns are the least common with 

 horses, and are nearer akin to those of the human 

 being. Animals afflicted in this way are UNSOUND. 



SAND-CRACK. 



This is a crack or fissure mostly situate in the 

 inside quarter of the fore-foot, beginning just below the 



