302 ON THE TREATMENT OF HORSES' FEET, 



farriers, and most excellent applications they are for 

 keeping the horn of horses feet tough and elastic. The 

 application is to be used twice or thrice a week, and to 

 be well rubbed round the hoof. In applying it to the 

 soles, it should be spread on pledgets of tow, covering 

 the whole surface of the sole, and to be sufficient in 

 quantity or substance to give some degree of pressure 

 to the sole, wheieby the crust or wall of the foot 

 will be relieved of a certain portion of its weight ; and 

 the edges of the tow should be pressed under the 

 shoe, so as to give pressure to those parts in a similar 

 way. 



By the method of shoeing and the treatment here 

 recommended, I have not only kept horses in work 

 that have been at head quarters ; but their feet have so 

 much grown, and become so strong, as to admit of 

 their being almost constanly shod in plain shoes. 



I have thus far given my opinion with regard to the 

 application of pressure on the frog, and also such in- 

 structions for the shoeing and treatment of such feet as 

 the practice I have had authorizes me to give; and 

 which I hope will be sufficient for the guidance of 

 grooms and smiths who have the care and shoeing of 

 race-horses, subject to such imperfections. 



With regard to the feet of thorough-bred horses 

 generally, I would observe, that these horses, having 

 their origin in a hot climate, and being bred on a dry 

 soil, their feet are, as I have before noticed, almost in- 

 variably found to be strong, upright, and small, with 

 the soles concave. This description is applicable to the 



