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logs tlio cause is somowlicrc in the stillu julut or 

 hock, the kiico of the hind leg-. The reiisou of this 

 is obvious. If a gentleman uses a straight walk- 

 ing stick when going about his grounds, ho will 

 find the stick wear at the point, so the straight or 

 foreleg of a horse wears at the point. If, however, 

 a crooked stick, or one with a joint, is used, it will 

 be observed to bond and give at the joint, leaving 

 the point wholly unworn, and it is so with a horse's 

 hind leg ; the wearing and injury usually occur at 

 the joint of that leg, the foot remaining uninjured. 

 And it is well to remember this, because a person 

 rejecting a horse for lameness should be able to 

 say something, though not technically, of his 

 reasons for doing so. To say that a horse is lame 

 in his hind feet, but is sound on his forefeet, 

 although possible, does not impress a jury of 

 farmers as a connnon sense remark ; they know, 

 although they cannot tell why, tliat such a thing 

 rarely happens — that if a horse goes sound in front 

 and is lame behind, and the cause is in tlie foot, 

 that it has been pinched in shoeing, or liad a blow, 

 or has suffered some temporary injury there, which 

 thc'v will not look upon as unsoundness, but as an 

 injury easily remedied, and arising from the 

 buyer's own fault. 



Th<! common diseases of the foot in a liorse, 

 which are manifestly unsoundness, are corns; 

 grogginess, or navicular disease; laminitis, or fever 

 in the feet; thru.sh and contracted feet. 



