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How to cure a SanJ-Crack, 



CHAP. LIX. 



gAND-CRACKS, AND FALSE QUARTERS. 



Sand-cracks are little clefts, running in ^ 

 straight line down the hoof; and sometimes 

 through the horny part; which, in process of 

 time, often grows out of itself; but if the crack 

 passes through the ligament, w4iich joins the hoof 

 ^'ith the coronet, it piust be treated in the follow-, 

 fng manner. 



First, rasp across the clift betwixt the coronet 

 and hoof, both thin and wide, then take a firing- 

 iron, and moderately heat it; afterwards fire o, 

 line straight across the cleft, between the hair 

 and the hoof. Dress it in thq same manner as 

 for the false quarter. 



A false quarter is, when one part of the hoof 

 is destroyed by some long-continued quittor, that 



