HORSES: THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



more especially if it is suppurating (suppurating corn). There 

 may or ma\' not be lameness, most likely the latter. A 

 corn may end in quittor (see this), i.e., the matter makes its way 

 out around the coronet (top of hoof). In exceptional cases the 

 coffin bone becomes diseased. 



Treatment. — Remove the shoe. Get the blacksmith to pare 

 the corn well out if it has began suppurating. Now cleanse the 

 foot in a solution of creohn (two ounces to a gallon of water). 

 Put on a warm bran poultice. As soon as suppuration ceases, 

 dress with tar and dry tow, put on a leather, and a three- 

 quarter bar shoe. In a recent corn, put on a leather sole, 

 along with a dressing of tar and tow. Attend to shoeing. 



FORGING. 



This is a clacking sound, arising through the hind shoe 

 striking the fore one. By shoeing the fore limbs with a pair of 

 concave hunting shoes, the noise will often cease. Leg weary 

 horses and those recently up from grass will frequently " forge." 

 Keep toe of hind feet short. 



FALSE QUARTER. 



This is characterised by an indentation or falling in of a 

 portion of the wall of the hoof, and it may be either upon 

 the inner or outer side of the latter. It is due to an imperfect 

 secretion of horn, commonly the result of an injury (bruise, cut, 

 etc.), to the band running round the top of the hoof, known 

 as the coronary band, or cushion. Direct injury to the horn 

 itself may bring on sloughing at the coronet, and in this way 

 end in false quarter. The wall of the hoof being weakened pre- 

 disposes to sandcrack, consequently false quarter becomes 



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