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 How to bring a Horse's Hoof into Shape. 



performed at the latter end of the year; the 

 horse must be kept in the stable till the wound is 

 sufficiently healed, afterwards he may be turned 

 out into a straw-yard, and continue there during 

 the winter. It should, however, be observed, that 

 the horse will require somewhat better food than 

 mere straw ; a little hay and corn, therefore, will 

 be necessary twice a day. 



If the horse undergoes this operation in the 

 spring, it will be necessary, after he has stood in 

 the stable a proper time, to turn him out to grass 

 on some marshy or low grounds, and give him a 

 summer run. In about six or eight weeks after 

 the horse has been fired, a new hoof will begin to 

 appear all round the coronet, as far as the firing 

 extended. When it is grown half an inch or an 

 inch down, and appears any ways out of form, it 

 must be brought into shape by rasping ; and if the 

 foot be afterwards washed with old urine once a 

 day, this will harden and give tendency to the 

 part. As soon as the quarter is grown down, and 



