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warm water. Some add salt, soda, etc. , but it is better clear, as the only 

 virtue lies in the moisture. Many of the substances used are injurious to 

 the hoofs, by making them brittle. Or pack the hoof with linseed meal, or 

 oil-cake meal, wet up with hot water. If there is much heat and fever, 

 put on swabs, either made of felt or pieces of old blanket or woolen cloth, 

 folded and tied around the pastern, and left to hang down over the feet, 

 and wet frequently with hot water. 



A horse that has chronic corns can be cured by shoeing him with tips reach- 

 ing half way back to the heels, letting the heels come to the ground and 

 take wear. This gives frog pressure also and spreads the quarters, which 

 will in time gi'ow the corns completely out. A little fly blister rubbed into 

 the coronets of the fore feet will stimulate a healthy growth of horn, and as- 

 sist in overcoming the conditions of the hoof that helped to induce the corns. 



n. Quitter. 

 Quittor is the name given to a disease of the foot, when the festering of 

 any other sore works up through, and breaks out at the top of the hoof at 

 the junction with the hair. 



Causes. — It is usually the result of a neglected corn, prick of a nail, 

 gravel getting into a nail hole, or a festered corn working up through to 

 the top of the hoof. 



How to Know It. — It usually occurs on the quarters, anywhere from 

 the heels to two or three inches forward, but is oftener seen on the inner 

 quarter, because corns are most often found there. It 

 makes its appearance, after the horse has been lame for 

 some time, by swelling at the coronet. Sometimes the 

 first active swelling of the part is as large as a hen's egg. 

 In the course of a day or two it breaks and discharges 

 In active suppuration, matter, whcu the horse will be relieved of some of the 



before the pus has . i . i i 



broken out at the top. pam, which has bccu very intense during the formation 

 of the sore. Sometimes the foot can scarcely be put to the floor at all, 

 and may be kept pawing most of the time. After the quittor has been run- 

 ning two or three days, the flesh around the opening will turn purple and 

 A get soft, and the matter will spread, extending each way, 



^^^^'■"Mm^ but more towards the front. In a couple of weeks pipes 

 ^ w i S fil^B^ ^^^ have formed, pointing downwards in all directions, 

 ^^g^Mr having one common center in the opening at the top. If 

 ^^^S^^^0 ^®* alone, the walls of the pipes will thicken and harden, 

 A QUITTOR. and the enlargement at the top will increase, sometimes to 

 oiit at t1feiop° ^" the size of a man's fist. All this time the lameness con- 

 tinues very great, and, if allowed to run on for three months or more, the 

 foot becomes so full of pipes and so large, hot and painful as to require 



