24 THE HORSE S RESCUE. 



in, and that makes the horse interfere. He cannot 

 move well. 



The same effect is produced from the same cause if 

 he is run over the opposite ; it turns his toes in, his 

 ankles out The fact is, his heels should always be 

 kept as even at the top as possible. This keeps the 

 foot nearly on a straight line. The point of the frog 

 is the guide. Make a true circle from that point each 

 way after you have got the heels even at the top. 

 This will stop more horses from interfering than all 

 the tinkering ever done. Of course there should be 

 judgment used in dressing the foot. A long, pointed- 

 toe is not natural either on the horse's forward or 

 hinder feet. Keep the feet natural as near as possible. 

 The fact is, the colt grows up crooked for the want of 

 proper care, the raisers being ignorant in regard to this 

 fact, which I well know. Look at your colts, not at 

 pictures of horses, if you want to study the horse. If 

 you will read this book carefully, you will see these 

 facts as plain as I do, and can talk horse as well. 



I have been told that I have broken myself down 

 bawling "horse." My lungs are the soundest part of 

 me. I could talk this twenty times faster than I can 

 write it. Talk comes with the knowledge; quite a 

 number of exceptions to that rule. One thing my 

 mouth was made for is to talk. 



To return to the subject: I have straightened hun- 

 dreds of colts' feet, although they had grown up de- 

 formed and crooked. The colt comes to the shoer in 

 this condition, run over, both toes out, sometimes all. 

 or in. On forward legs, they come with knees thrown 

 together, ankles on hind feet run over the opposite 



