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words, a whole plate covering his foot and protecting it from the 

 earth. (See engravings of my ideas.) 



Question. How can I cure a horse's contracted foot ? 



Answer. Pare his foot perfectly level, cutting the horn down 

 until the frog will come even with shoe, if possible. Put on a poul- 

 ts oe made of — 



Linseed meal i quart. 



Charcoal i^ pints. 



Soft Soap I quart. 



Mix this all together, and put on the bottom of your horse's foot 

 every twelve hours for five applications. 



Use skunk oil on the hoof- band of the horse's foot every morning 

 for three weeks; then put on a shoe made bevelled at the heel, having 

 the shoe not thicker at the heel than it is at the toe. Open the heel 

 a little with the knife, and turn your horse out to pasture. Let him 

 run thirty days, then bring him up and have him reshod, and turn 

 him out again for thirty days. He is ready then to drive, and with 

 proper care in shoeing him, you will have no trouble with your 

 horse. Remember, in order to have a thorough cure, you must fol- 

 low the above directions. 



The next illustration shows the effects of soaking a horse's foot daily 

 through a campaign on the turf. The little spot shown in the upper 

 left hand corner is a corn, which in the majority of cases is caused 

 by the shoe resting upon the bar of the horse's foot. This becoming 

 bruised causes a callous, the same as upon a person's toe, which forms 

 a corn. Can be cured by following treatment laid down elsewhere 

 in this book. In all cases to relieve a horse from pain from this 

 cause, you must relieve the pressure of the shoe against the corn. 



Question. What kind of a horse-shoe do you approve of? 



Answer. I approve of only the old common-sense shoe, made as 

 plain as possible. The only thing we have to do in shoeing a horse, 

 is to prevent the wall of the horse's foot from cracking away. If we 

 did not have any pavements for our horses to travel over I believe that 

 it would be unnecessary to shoe any horse whatever. There are a great 



