92 THE FOOT. 



eoni may be produced by an ill put on shoe, the 

 removal and properly replacing of which will 

 remove the corn. 



Flat soles are not always the result of disease. 

 When they are so, the crust (or all that part of 

 the hoof exposed to view, when the foot stands 

 on the ground) runs very obliquely from the 

 termination of the skin to the ground ; and 

 transversely, it is marked by alternate ridges 

 and furrows. Such feet are very objectionable 

 in any horse, but particularly so in a heavy one, 

 who has to work in or about a town : for if the 

 feet ev^er again become inflamed, there is every 

 probability of the sole bulging out, and becoming 

 so convex as to render the animal all but useless. 

 Sometimes the foot is naturally flat, and then it 

 does not, as in the other case, constitute un- 

 soundness : the horse having the diseased flat 

 foot may be more particularly distinguished 

 from the other by his gait, which I have to 

 speak of by and by, wndi&v founder. 



The Shoe should be looked at, in order to 

 assist in determining whether or not the horse 

 cuts himself. If a bad cutter, he will either 

 have the inside branch of the shoe considerably 

 thicker than the outer one, or he will have a 



