RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN AND HORSES 



sufficient to warrant the belief that a corn is present. 

 The shoe should be removed, and the quarter, with 

 some of the bar, pared out, the foot placed in a 

 tub of warm water for four or five hours, and thence 

 to a poultice, and alternated for two days, when 

 the parts should again undergo a liberal and judicious 

 paring, there being little danger of carrying this too 

 far. If the corn proves to be of a suppurative char- 

 acter, with pus flowing from the opening, it will 

 be well to introduce a little of the tincture of muriate 

 of iron for one or two applications; then continue 

 to treat with twenty parts of tincture of myrrh and 

 one of creoline\ until the sore has thoroughly healed. 

 It is not always necessary to keep the animal out of 

 use, but when the soreness has nearly or quite sub- 

 sided, a bar shoe may be applied, the bar being much 

 thicker than the shoe, welded on and broad enough 

 to cover a large part of the frog, the object being to 

 secure a resting place for the frog which should be 

 made to take a part of the weight from the diseased 

 quarter, which should be so relieved that it cannot 

 rest on the shoe. When the animal is put to work, the 

 cavity should be packed with pine tar and oakum. 

 This should not be allowed to remain for more than 

 two or three days at the most without renewal, as 

 it will become hard enough to irritate the parts, and 

 prolong the trouble. A horse subject to corns will 

 be greatly benefited by wearing rubber pads. 



Interfering. We doubt if there is anything more 

 irritating or annoying to the lover of a horse than 

 the pernicious habit of interfering, and, notwithstand- 

 ing there has been no end of rules laid down explain- 

 ing how an animal should be shod to overcome the 

 practice, it seems to be the rule to fail, and the ex- 

 ception to succeed. There is one rule, however, simple 



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