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going sound at the time, I should not reject him for my 

 own use. Where the feet are otherwise good, with care 

 and proper shoeing corns are soon cured. I would give 

 the owner a short time to try and cure soft corns if the 

 horse is otherwise sufficiently good. While a corn of 

 any kind exists, the animal is UNSOUND. 



Corns may be produced in so short a period, that, 

 should you discover them immediately after purchase, 

 you cannot return the horse, unless you can prove they 

 existed prior to purchase. 



If any reader of this, with feet most tender from bad 

 corns, is wincing away in tight boots, he should be in- 

 formed that there is no analogy between human corns 

 and those of horses. The corn of the horse is a bruise 

 similar to that caused by pinching up a piece of the skin, 

 so as to leave the blood underneath, and which, previous 

 to going away, assumes a black appearance. In the horse 

 it is best to cut them out, and keep off the pressure till 

 thoroughly recovered. Soft corns are the least common 

 with horses, and are nearer akin to those of the human 

 being. Animals afflicted in this way are UNSOUND. 



SAND-CKACK. 



This is a crack or fissure mostly situate in the inside 

 quarter of the forefoot, beginning just below the coronet, 

 between hair and hoof, and passing down towards the bot- 

 tom of the foot. Attention should be paid to this the 

 moment it is discovered, when the requisite treatment 

 and two or three days' rest will enable the horse to go 

 sound in his work. In a few days the bandages may be 

 taken off. The horse will most probably remain free 

 from sand -crack till about the same time in the following 

 year, when, unless strict attention is paid to it, he may 



