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If there is a corn, you must protect that part from pressure, and 

 this is done best by bringing pressure on the frog with a bar shoe, but 

 if there is weakness or inflammation in the coffin-joint this is not by 

 any means advisable, as it would aggravate the difficulty ; you must now 

 use an ordinary open shoe with middling high heel-corks, with no toe- 

 cork, on the contrary, you should round the toe to imitate an old shoe, 

 by bending or turning up the toe. If the horse is stiff and sore, in all 

 cases round the toe, so that the foot will naturally roll a little, and thus 

 in a measure relieve the strain upon the machinery of the foot and 

 joint above it. To make the heels stronger, that is, have more horn, 

 stimulate coronary ring at the upper edge of the hoof, using a mild 

 blister, just enough to stimulate sharply, twice a week, or use the Hoof 

 Liniment, but you must grow horn from the top down, and you will 

 not see benefit until you have grown the foot down pretty well. If 

 you have contraction, open the feet as directed, minding to keep the 

 feet stuffed when in stable, at all events the feet must not be allowed 

 to get dry and hard. 



QUARTER CRACK. 



The only practical way to cure quarter crack is to open the heel on 

 that side, between bar and frog, cutting well down but not to bleed, 

 until the quarter will give freely, then put on the shoe for expanding 

 the heels. In this case you are to open or spread only the inner heel. 

 The hoof is simply too small for the foot, and doing this properly 

 reaches the point directly. In addition burn with a firing iron a crease 

 across at the upper edge of the hoof. If this is done properly the 

 hoof will not split any more. You may now grow the hoof more 

 rapidly if you desire, but opening the foot and shoe is the point of 

 success. 



Mr. Bonner is the most profound and practical student of the foot 

 in this or any other country. The writer is indebted to him for many 

 valuable hints on the care and management of the feet, but does not 

 feel at liberty to publish details of his treatment. He is a man of 

 rare, round common sense, in all that he says and does, who goes to 

 the bottom of a thing. His industry and research is in fact wonderful, 

 in all that pertains to the care and management of horses. 



MR. BONNER S SYSTEM OF FEEDING. 



In the morning, at five o'clock in summer, and six o'clock in winter, 

 each horse is given two quarts of oats. At nine o'clock two quarts 

 more are given, and the same quantity is given again at one o'clock. 

 Before feeding, each horse is given all the water he will take, unless he 

 is to be driven, in which case the allowance is cut short a little. At 

 five o'clock in the afternoon the allowance of hay is given, usually 

 about ten pounds to each horse, and none is given at any other time 

 during the twenty-four hours. At nine in the evening, each horse is 

 given a hot supper prepared as follows : For the ten horses twenty 

 quarts of oats are put into a large kettle and boiled after which is 



