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lurnod out to grass, or a chnngo from heatinp; to 

 cool food, tlio horn of tlio lioof will make a sikUU-u 

 start anil grow very rapidly ; and, if from any 

 oause this growth is again stinted, a ring will bo 

 formed, more or less In'uad, as the growth has liad 

 AavftntnRo moro or less time to develope. It is surprising 

 unguciits. how the applieation of some unguents to a horse's 

 lioof, comLincd with green food, will develope the 

 growth of horn. The well-known Iloplemuroma 

 of Mr. Clark, commonly called " Hops " in stahlo 

 parlance, if rubbed into the coronet of a hoi-se's 

 lioof s regularly, will sometimes occasion so rapid 

 a growth of honi as to look like a diseased pro- 

 tuberance, while all the while the horse operated 

 on is perfectly .sound and improving in the feet. 

 Kings are not, therefore, always signs of disease ; 

 still, as a rule, anything abnormal in the feet, such 

 as a ring or a contracted castlchoof, indicates, more 

 or less, disease or fever in the feet of long stand- 

 ing, and, if combined with lameness, may be dis- 

 tinctly classed as unsoimdness. Some other defects 

 and diseases of the feet are patent and visible to 

 tijo eye of an ordinary observer, such as sandcrack 

 and grease. There can be no concealment of 

 cither one or the other of these diseases ; both 

 may iiniiair I lie naluial usefulness of a hoi-se, and, 

 llicrefore, be unsoundness; but botli can be cuhmI, 

 and an^ generally i]w result of low condition, 

 caused by bad grooming and insudicient food. 

 Sandrrarh is a crack or split in llic lioof of a horse, 



