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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



saturated with it, large enough to cover affected parts, Avarm 

 and apply the salve. Place also a good linen, bandage around 

 the coronet and under the heels, so as to hold the dressing 

 firmly to the affected parts, and heat in well with a warm iron. 

 Stand the foot in the soaking tub filled with warm water six 

 inches deep, for one or two hours, and afterward use the soak- 

 ing swabs around the pasterns and foot. Keep well wet with 

 warm water for a few days, or until the soreness disappears. 



This shoe is designed for quarter crack, where neither toe 

 nor heel calkins are required. This treatment I have used with 

 unvarying success in the case of speed horses that have bsen 

 driven over hard tracks 

 and roads. If horses' 

 feet are kept properly 

 balanced, the wall pliable 

 and flexible, and the hoof 

 shod with shoes suited to 

 the work required, there 

 will be little danger of 

 quarter crack. The treat- 

 ment is as follows : In 

 old, long-standing cases, 

 one side of the wall will 

 overlap the other. In 

 such instance, remove all 

 the fractured and loose 

 w^ali as deep as the podo- 

 phyllous tissues. Be care- 

 ful not to draw blood. 

 The shoe is set down to 

 half its thickness in front 

 of the crack, being grad- 

 ally drawn thinner as the 

 Jieel is approached. Then 





Fig. 115. side view of hoof prepared, 

 balanced, axdshod for quarter crack, 

 ■where ko toe nor heel calkins are 

 reulired. 



A, A, "Wall removed under crack. B, 

 Quarter crack. 



