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shop, get a pair of blowers and an anvil, and a few 

 other implements they have learned to at least call by 

 name, and at once advertise to shoe a horse in the 

 most scientific manner for seventy-five cents. The 

 result is that a great many farmers and others owning 

 horses, who are not well informed, patronize them. 

 In a few months the horse has corns, overreach, in- 

 terfere, suffer from swinney, shoulder-jam, and many 

 other complaints too numerous to mention, and which 

 are called by any name a quack doctor gives them. 

 Suppose your animal has been crippled for life by a 

 seventy-five cent blacksmith. Let me say right here 

 that no one can shoe a horse properly for seventy-five 

 cents and exist. He must, in equity, be paid from two 

 to five dollars. A shoe should never remain on over 

 four to six weeks; then have it reset, and always pat- 

 ronize smiths who have been perfected in their pro- 

 fession. 



I am often asked how to cure a horse of corns, and 

 my invariable answer is, " Simply remove the cause." 

 If you have a corn on your own foot you would either 

 cut your old shoes or buy a larger and better-fitting 

 pair. Now apply the same treatment to the horse. 

 If he has a corn, simply take the pressure off the quar- 

 ter where the corn is. Cut off the top part of the 

 corn, and after the pressure is removed it will grad- 

 ually get well. In the winter time keep the foot 

 covered. Put in tar, or something similar. There 

 are a great many so-called specialists who claim to 

 cure corns, etc. ; but my advice is to patronize only a 

 first-class blacksmith. If he does not succeed in the 

 first few days,- don't go off and try some one else, but 

 stick to him, as he will be more likely, after seeing the 

 horse a few times, to ascertain and remedy the com- 

 tjlaint quicker than any one else. 



