THE horse's rescue. 75 



animal is trying to get on his base or foundation. His 

 weipht is unequal!}^ adjusted. 



Wlien looking around, talking horse, a man says : 

 "I have a fine-looking horse. He can hardly walk. 

 Will you go and see him ?" *' Yes." They say he is 

 ''foundered;" flat feet all around ; shoes on; weight 

 in center; corks on shoe; frog on ground; went down 

 through the cup; long toes; rounding on bottom; 

 broken in front ; coffin-joint injured or dislocated. I 

 told the man to pull off the horse's shoes, cut off that 

 lever, and put the weight on the frog. He might get 

 well. It would help help him if he did not recover. 

 He thought that would not do. Here is another case — 

 cup foot. This hoi'se is within a stone's throw of a 

 veterinarian's office in Elmira. The owner says: "If 

 3^ou will cure him I will give you ten dollars." Let us 

 examine him. One foot is not half as long as its male, 

 and that is contracted badly. He is onl}^ eight years 

 old. On one he has what is called a " heart shoe," 

 frog-bearing; not nearly as long as it might have been. 

 Long pointed toe, and ironed solid. He was in great 

 pain. 



They were trying to shoe this horse in that way. 

 A frog-bearing shoe should never be put on a cup foot 

 in any case. It holds the sole up and makes bad 

 worse for this reason : the foot cannot expand unless 

 the sole can come down. And that is not all ; if 

 it is nailed it cannot run down unless the shoe gets 

 loose, and then the shoer takes a scurfing. This prin- 

 ciple is the same on all cup feet. I tried to induce him 

 to pull all of the shoes off and dress his feet down at 

 the toe. Cut off that lever I could not. I walked 



