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told JO a of their movement on the track. I cannot 

 describe this scene; they are deformed in so many 

 ways and degrees, straddling, stiff, poking along, 

 nearly all got cards on their bridles. They took pre- 

 miums according to their class and degrees of worth, 

 and yet not one of these horses was entered as a crip- 

 ple ; neither did the judges know they were cripples. 

 If they did they were not honest Reader, what 

 chance do you think a man would have with such 

 judges if he was to be tried for lunacy for talking 

 horse? I had to look sharp and keep watch of my 

 surroundings in this town. I have not yetgotdone in 

 Horseheads bawling horse and experimenting on the 

 horse to know the cause of all of these horses' troubles, 

 and they are many. I must buy and work on many 

 to prove and test their ailments, each sepamtely, in 

 order to know if this principle of working on the feet 

 would remove the cause of this trouble and suffering 

 condition of these horses. This is no easy task, but 

 it must be done in order to know. Opinions and be- 

 liefs are not knowledge. These things must be proved 

 by experimenting. It occurred to me after I had 

 worked on these horses some time, that it ought not 

 to cause any inflammation by changing these horses 

 back to natural by this process — spreading the feet — 

 if it was done right, and if I did not go beyond nat- 

 ural, that is, spread too much. It is rather hard busi- 

 iiess to work on these horses almost night and day to 

 prevent inflammation taking place after spreading. I 

 must test this thing. I must have another horse. If 

 it kills him it will be my loss, and no one will know 

 what did kill him. 



