24 NOTES ON SHOEING OF HORSES. 



Scat of 28. The seat of corn is iu the ande between the 



corn. ^ 



crust and its redupHcation, viz. the bars. 



Corns are produced by pressure either from the 

 shoe, or from the lodgment of dirt or gravel in that 

 angle, or from the blow of a stone or any other 

 bruise. 



As in most horses pressure and concussion are 

 greatest on the inside of the foot, corns are most 

 common on the inside heel. 



If the crust be not damaged by rasping, and if 

 the bars are not cut away, no pressure from the 

 shoe (if the shoe fits) can come on the seat of 

 corn ; nor can dirt easily lodge in that angle, if the 

 sole be not pared out from it ; nor is there much 

 fear of injury sufficient to cause corn from the blow 

 of a stone, if the sensitive sole in that angle is duly 

 protected by the presence of its natural covering of 

 insensitive sole. 



The seat of corn, therefore, should not he pared 

 out. It is better protected from the chances of 

 injury by being covered, as Nature intended it to 

 be, by the soft flakes of the unpared sole. And 

 besides, the paring out of the seat of corn weakens 

 the walls of the crust and bars, by depriving them 

 of that lateral support which they would receive 

 from the presence of that portion of the sole ; 

 and in this way also, paring out the seat of corn 

 has a tendency to produce rather than prevent 

 the eviL 



