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Thrush, I have observed, very often goes in company 

 with contracted feet. It is a disease of the frof>\ from 

 which an offensive discharge proceeds. A not infre- 

 quent cause is standing in wet places where the urine 

 lodges and the feet becomes soaked and saturated in 

 filth. Another cause that may produce thrush is the 

 filthy and senseless practice of stopping the feet with 

 cow-dung or other unclean substances. First, the foot 

 should be kept clean and dry, and as a good application 

 I may recommend a weak solution of blue vitriol. Some 

 use butter of antimony and others salt. However, the 

 best remedy I have ever known was given me by Mr. 

 William Moore, of Albany, a clever horseman and a 

 gentleman. Here it is : 



Red precipitate 1 ounce. 



Blue vitriol 1 ounce. 



Burnt alum jounce. 



Powdered white sugar 1 ounce. 



Mix, and apply daily to the affected frog. 



Quarter cracks I believe to be sometimes caused by 

 allowing the foot to grow long and the horn to become 

 dried and hard, when the expansion of the foot at the 

 coronet cracks the inelastic hoof below it. 



For the cure of quarter-crack I cut the horn away on 

 either side of the crack, leaving a Y-shaped incision, 

 the apex of the V being at the lower extremity of the 

 crack. Then I cut away the hoof from a little in front 

 of the crack to the heel. Xow T shoe with a bar-shoe, 

 this making the other side of the foot and the fros" 

 bear the weight, none of which comes on the region 

 immediately affected by the crack, leaving it free to 

 grow out without working. The foot must be easily 



