158 CORNS 



advice which I can offer to the owner of a horse so 

 afflicted is to part with it, or, if the case is a far 

 advanced one, to have the horse destroyed. 



Corns in a horse are the result of bruise. In the 

 liuman foot they are, as is perhaps too well known, the 

 result of pressure. But in both instances badly fitting 

 and short shoes are to blame. In the horse the shoe, 

 being too short, bears unduly upon what is called the 

 seat of corn — viz., the inner portion of the sole where 

 the fibres of the crust, doubling back, form, with the 

 sole, what are termed the ' bars.' The shoe should, of 

 course, be continued the entire length of the foot, but 

 when it falls short of this fitting the end of it is, by the 

 weight and action of the horse, driven into the foot at 

 this spot, and forms a bruise. 



Unless this evil is promptly remedied, the bruise 

 extends deeper, and in extreme cases the matter which 

 is formed by the inflammation thus set up, being unable 

 to force its way through the horn, creates a sinus in 

 an upward direction, and eventually finding exit at the 

 coronet, produces what is termed a ' quittor,' which is 

 a very difficult and troublesome complaint to cure. 



Corns are entirely due to bad shoeing, and are a 

 disgrace to both the owner and the farrier — to the 

 latter because he has so shod the horse as to produce 

 them ; to the former, inasmuch as such shoes being 

 permitted to remain on any horse in his possession 

 longf enough to cause such a state of affairs evinces a 

 very careless and bad system of stable management 

 generally. 



Horses which are lame from corns, generally speak- 

 ing, ' warm up ' and go sound after they have gone 

 some distance in saddle or harness, as the case maybe; 



