AX ' IMPROVED ' HOOF. 



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open the skull for the purpose of protecting the 

 brain. 



Here is a figure of a hoof in my possession which 

 has been treated according to these directions. It 

 was drawn by the late Mr. Sherwin from the actual 

 specimen, which was by no means the worst that 

 I have seen. 



I will now proceed to show what is the result of 

 thus preparing the hoof, first, however, mentioning that 

 the directions which are here 

 given are followed both in Eng- 

 land and America. While on a 

 tour through the Northern States 

 in the winter of 1883, 1 delivered 

 lectures on this subject in many 

 places. One well-known writer 

 and lecturer took umbrage at my 

 statements, and had the hardi- 

 hood to assert, both by pen and on the platform, that 

 in America the frogs of the horses were not cut away, 

 nor the soles pared. Yet, being in America, I took 

 my descriptions, not from our English customs but 

 from American sources, one, as the reader may have 

 seen, being stamped with official authority. 



The first direction is, to pare the sole until it 

 yields to the pressure of the thumb. In many cases 

 this paring of the sole I again use American autho- 



HOOF IMPKOVED BY 

 THE FARRIER. 



