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best, and can be got with little trouble. It will draw 

 out the soreness, keep the foot moist, and stay in bet- 

 ter, and there is no stone or "-ravel in it, as there raifrht 

 be in clav, for the sole to settle on between the sole 

 and shoe. I want the sole to settle. After you have 

 softened his feet, drive him, moderately at first, on 

 smooth roads. After a few days you can let him sail. 

 Pack all of his feet when standing in the stable 

 nights. Never neglect it; and keep the feet moist 

 while going through this change and afterward unless 

 you want to drive a cripple. Before you drive clear 

 all out under the shoe.'' I have already written 

 enough about that. This is a lesson to this bov. I 

 called him '' Bub." I never learned his given name. 

 I write as I talk. Men use different words to convey 

 the same ideas, and I may use some that others would 

 not. It is principles on the hgrse which I want to 

 convey, on relieving the suffering horse scientifically 

 without medicine. 



I watched the change and action of this horse. He 

 was driving by my shop daily, and many times a day. 

 In ten days the spring-halt was all gone ; he settled 

 down across the loin ; he changed back wonderfully 

 in that short time. This ''spring-halt" business is 

 called by great horsemen "string-halt." With all of 

 my experience I have never seen anj^ strings about it. 

 Some say it is caused by horses sweating too much in 

 the flank. What is the use of ta^lking such baby talk 

 as that? After they have removed the cause of this 

 difficulty on scientific principles they will know. Un- 

 til they do, or see it done, they must remain in igno- 

 rance of these demonstrated facts. 



