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loin, and badly too; but the cause they know nothing 

 of. A horse thrown in this way will struggle hard to 

 retain his feet, and many times he is crammed with all 

 kinds of trash, bled and blistered, when the cause all 

 lies in his feet. 



In the fore part of this work I left a horse that had 

 not been balariced up. He was badly off his base. 

 He had become spavined. He went over backwards, 

 and horses would go more off their bose were they not 

 divided against themselves. Beino- on their base for- 

 •ward saves them somewhat. Sometimes it will not 

 do that. When they get verj^ bad behind they must 

 go down. Being on a constant strain all of the time, 

 and drawing loads, or traveling in any way, and rising 

 over that lever, all out of harmon}'', the}'' are soon 

 ruined in a greater or less degree. To balance them 

 up only adds more effects in number. By splitting it 

 "up it only makes this entanglement more complicated. 

 Not a cause is removed. It prolongs their sufferings. 

 Sometimes, and many times, it causes their death by 

 suffering. I have seen lots of this kind. 



After battling alone in this town, woi-king on all 

 kinds of cripples, from far and near, ten months, not 

 one soldier could I enlist to take hold of this science. 

 My health was fast giving out, and money too. I de- 

 cided to sell my property and try a new field. I soon 

 did this. When I wanted to sell I always put on a 

 selling price. It always went. I collected all I could 

 by asking for it. Some I took in promises that have 

 never been fulfilled. The old gray mare I sold on one 

 year's time ; that is due now. I must collect that. I 

 want to see her, and see how she fares, and see if she 



