22 THE horse's rescue. 



taken of the foot, and that but very few will do. 

 I saw at the Centennial quite a number of horses' 

 hoofs with pi'inted papei's on them. I read tliem. 

 This was on them all, "Caused b}'' impi-oper shoeing." 

 Same old stor3^ I am not going to spend my time and 

 fill up this book with a lot of trash tliat has been 

 talked and written for hundreds of years — a large 

 amount of talk, but little knowledge that has been any 

 benefit to the suffeiing horse. 



KINDS OF FEET. 



I will make a few remarks on the horses' foot — how 

 to select. There are four kinds of feet on colts be- 

 fore thev have been ironed ; then thev commenc=;j to 

 change and assume all kinds of shapes hard to de- 

 scribe; and it matters not what shape they are in, 

 I shall show in this work I change them back to the 

 natural one ; that is, put the colt's foot on the horse. 

 That is what I want to teach. 



The foot halE way between the large flat foot and 

 cupping foot is the best, for this reason: It ex- 

 pands from the weight of the horse. The cup foot con- 

 tracts faster. The large flat foot expands too much 

 with the weight of the horse. The large peck-measui-e 

 foot is poorest of all. It has too much membrane; it 

 is too heavy, and changes quicker; it is moi-e liable to 

 get sore by ironing. They are all good enough for 

 me, as I can do what I want with them. That is what 

 I want to teach ; that is what all ought to know. 



HOW TO RAISE UP A GOOD STRAIGHT HORSE. 



Tliis is the most important of all. The horse, while 

 growing up from a colt, is neglected, not intentionally. 



