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This operation always answers the best when 

 performed at the latter end of the year ; the horse 

 must be kept in the stable till the wound is suffi- 

 ciently healed, afterwards he may be turned out 

 into a straw-yard, and continue there during the 

 winter. It should, however, be observed, that the 

 horse will require somewhat better food than mere 

 straw ; a little hay and corn, therefore, will be 

 necessary twice a day. 



If the horse undergoes this operation in the 

 spring, it will be necessary, after he has stood in 

 the stable a proper time, to turn him out to grass 

 on some marshy or low grounds, and give him a 

 summer run. In about six or eight weeks after 

 the horse has been fired, a new hoof wdll begin to 

 appear all round the coronet, as far as the firing 

 extended. When it is grown half an inch, or an 

 inch, down, and appears any ways out of form, it 

 must be brought into shape by rasping : and if the 

 foot be afterwards washed with old urine once a 

 day, this will harden and give consistency to the 

 part. As soon as the quarter is grown down, and 

 the horse begins to work, every time he is new- 

 shod his foot must be washed with old chamberley, 

 in order to rust the nails, and strengthen the hoof. 



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