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think myself. A horse may slip and injure himself 

 running or playing, and there are many that do. I will 

 say right here that there are more horses sprained by 

 contraction and leverage than all other causes put to- 

 gether. When horses are thrown off their base, as 

 this horse is, by contraction, it lengthens the lever 

 very long. When a horse has to rise over that lever, 

 draw a load, and hold up two-thirds of his weight all 

 of the time, and w^hen standing or drawing, he is in no 

 position to hold up this weight. I should think there 

 was danger of straining thegambrel joints. Horses in 

 this condition you cannot go amiss of if you will look 

 at them. They are in all degrees of change from 

 natural. What is the condition of these horses, if they 

 lie down, when they want to rise? The horse always 

 rises up on his forward legs first. Then he comes up 

 on his hind legs wdth a spring-like motion. The more 

 these horses are thrown off their base, no matter from 

 what cause, the more the strain on the gam.brel joints 

 in rising. It is in many ways a strain on these horses 

 to rise. The kidneys are strained ; in fact, it strains 

 the horse all over. 



Now, quacks, come on with your firing, blistering 

 trash and cure these spavined horses, or any other, 

 without removing the cause, if you can, with tw^o- 

 thirds of his weight on these crippled legs. All you 

 can do, or ever have done in this Jine, is to torture the 

 already suffering horse, and there has been a great 

 amount of that done all over the land, and no good 

 result derived from it for either the horse or its owner. 

 This I have known for many years. 



Let us look the ringbone over a little. I have seen 



