PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS ON HORSESHOEING. 1 29 



shop, get a pair of blowers and an anvil, and a few 

 other implements they have learned to at least call by 

 name, and at once advertise to shoe a horse in the 

 most scientific manner for seventy-five cents. The 

 result is that a great many farmers and others owning 

 horses, who are not well informed, patronize them. 

 In a few months the horse has corns, overrearh, in- 

 terfere, suffer from swinney, shoulder-jam, and many 

 other complaints too numerous to mention, and which 

 are called by any name a quack doctor gives them. 

 Suppose your animal has been crippled for life by a 

 seventy-five cent blacksmith. Let me say right here 

 that no one can shoe a horse properly for seventy-five 

 cents and exist. He must, in equity, be paid from two 

 to five dollars. A shoe should never remain on over 

 four to six weeks; then have it reset, and always pat- 

 ronize smiths who have been perfected in their pro- 

 fession. 



I am often asked how to cure a horse of corns, and 

 my invariable answer is, " Simply remove the cause." 

 If you have a corn on your own foot you would either 

 cut your old shoes or buy a larger and better-fitting 

 pair. Now apply the same treatment to the horse. 

 If he has a corn, simply take the pressure off the quar- 

 ter where the corn is. Cut off the top part of the 

 corn, and after the pressure is removed it will grad- 

 ually get well. In the winter time keep the foot 

 covered. Put in tar, or something similar. There 

 are a great many so-called specialists who claim to 

 cure corns, etc.; but my advice is to patronize only a 

 first-class blacksmith. If he does not succeed in the 

 first few days, don't go off and try some one else, but 

 stick to him, as he will be more likely, after seeing the 

 horse a few times, to ascertain and remedy the com- 

 plaint quicker than any one else. 



