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bandage the cotton to the foot and stand the feet in the soak- 

 ing tub, with warm water six to eight inches deep, for one or 

 two hours. After taking the horse out of the soaking tub, bet- 

 ter apply the soaking swabs around tlie pastern, kept wet with 

 warm water, for a few days. I have cured the worst cases with 

 this shoe and treatment, and worked the horse daily. 



Fig. 114 shows a special shoe for quarter crack for running 



horses. I have been very 

 successful with this, using 

 it upon running horses 

 where, in their early 

 stages, they can not run 

 up to their full speed, 

 shod with bar shoes. The 

 shoe is very easily made, 

 as can be noted in the il- 

 lustration, by bending, as 

 at C. In paring the foot, 

 the wall or horn should 

 be removed so as to allow 

 the shoe to set snugly up 

 to the foot, as shown in 

 the diagram. Placing 

 nails in the heel of shoe 

 will hold the wall of 

 the foot permanently as 

 the horse springs over 

 the toe in his forward 

 movement. Fig. 114, open shoes; A, A, ground tread; B, B, 

 wall bearing ; C, set-off in shoe. Side view of foot shows : A, 

 quarter crack; B, shoe set off in front of the ground tread 

 of quarter crack. A full front view of this shoe is given in the 

 illustration in ease of shoes, page 284, iSTo. 103. After placing 

 this shoe upon the foot, use my foot salve, white cotton being 



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Fig. 114. shoe for quarter crack. 

 A, Quarter crack. B, Shoe. 



