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pad, and long enough to lie in front of the horse's foot. 

 The soles of horses' feet may be kept soft and cool in 

 a similar way, by taking a sufficient quantity of tow, 

 to form pledgets large and thick enough to fill up the 

 cavity at the bottom part of each fore-foot to such ex- 

 tent as to give a certain degree of pressure to the whole 

 surface of the sole. The edges of those pledgets should 

 be pressed round under the shoe with a picker, after 

 which each pledget of tow is to be wetted with a 

 sponge full of water, or the foot may be dipped into a 

 bucket of cold water every stable hour. 



The tow, from the weight of the horse while stand- 

 ing in the stable, takes the impression of the foot, and 

 remains in it as long as the horse remains in the sta- 

 ble, whether standing or lying. But the tow as well as 

 the pads are both to be removed, previous to the horses 

 going out to exercise, and may be laid aside against 

 the wall at the back of the stall until the horse comes 

 in and has been dressed. The pad, if well made, will 

 last a long time, and the same stopping of tow will 

 answer very well for a week or ten days. This is a 

 clean and convenient way of applying moisture to the 

 fore feet of horses that are in regular work, and I be- 

 lieve is much practised at the college. 



I have found it answer the purposes very well, and 

 it appears to have all the advantages of clay and water 

 in softening, cooling, and relaxing horses' feet. I 

 think the method of stopping with tow is certainly to 

 be preferred to the use of cow dung ; for if this latter 

 application is too frequently laid on over the frog, it 



