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symptom, but they never remove the cause. 

 Few horses with natural feet, good circula- 

 tion, and shod with a light shoe, will ever 

 interfere. In all such cases, take off the 

 heavy shoe, cure the contraction, get an even 

 bearing, and let nature have at least a momen- 

 tary chance. 



WORKING UP HORSES. 



It is a common practice of large proprie- 

 tors, engaged on railroad or city work, to buy 

 up horses with unsound feet, unfitted for speed 

 or gentle service, and use them up, as old 

 clothes are j^ut through a shoddy-mill for 

 what wool there is left in them. This cruel 

 policy, under an intelligent system of shoe- 

 ing, would be impossible, because the vast ag- 

 gregate of foot diseases would be so abated 

 that horses, sound in general health but 

 creeping upon disabled hoofs, could not be 

 found in droves, as at present, and the specula- 

 tor in equine misfortune would better serve 

 his selfishness by buying young horses and 

 keeping them sound by a natural system of 

 shoeing. 



