stand on the plain floor, and this will not be fatiguing 

 to him, if his feet are kept in a healthy state, and it 

 will be the endeavor of this work to give necessary 

 instructions, looking to that end. Straw is infinitely 

 better, but it should be kept fresh and sweet. The 

 best of all materials known to the author, and he has 

 had considerable experience in its use, is sand, the 

 ocean sand, or the sand from our large lakes, and he 

 never knew one of his horses to have fever in its feet 

 when using it. His horses were "bedded" with it, 

 no straw being used in addition, they slept on the 

 sand, sometimes with, and sometimes without 

 blankets. It was raked over carefully on top to 

 remove the manure that had been dropped, and re- 

 plenished with fresh every few weeks, about every 

 two or three weeks, his memory seems to suggest. 



Walkings Exercise. 



This work is not intended to give instruction in 

 training and driving, but one thing the author will 

 say, as the outcome of experience from carefully and 

 thoroughly testing its efficacy, and that is that the best 

 exercise to impart strength to the general system, to 

 promote growth of muscle, muscle that is supple and 

 healthy, and make speed, is walking exercise, fast, 

 very fast walking, with a boy weighing say 125 lbs. on 

 the back. Not dubbing along but get all of the 

 horses that are in training so that they can walk 

 faster than 4 miles in one hour (the author had one 

 that walked a mile in 10 minutes) and walk them 

 every other day 3 to 4 miles. Every trainer and driver 

 should understand farriery and horseshoeing and they 

 do not fully understand the ari of training and driving 

 unless they possess knowledge on these, the most 

 important of all the duties belonging to the trade, as 

 it may be called. 



''Corns." 



There is no such thing as a "Corn" in the foot of 

 the horse, but the author will explain certain things 

 in connection with this misapplied term, as shall 

 enable a proper treatment of the foot said to be 

 thus afflicted. The discoloration of the sole, at the 

 point at the back part of the foot between the bar 



