■104 MANAGEMENT OF THE fEET. 



before the stopping is applied, the picker should be run round 

 the whole of the foot, between the shoe and the sole, in order to 

 detect any stone that may have insinuated itself there, or a wound 

 on any other part of the sole. For the hackney and hunter 

 stopping is indispensable. After several days' hard work it will 

 afford very great relief to take the shoes off, having put plenty 

 of litter ilnder the horse, or to turn him, if possible, into a loose- 

 box ; and the shoes of every horse, whether hardly worked or 

 not, should be removed or changed once in every three weeks. 



