388 The Farmer'' s Veterinary Adviser. 



tlio lateral cartilage or bone, these may require to be cu< 

 out or scraped, but our limits will not permit a furtliei 

 notice of this. 



POWDEKY DEGENERATION OE THE DEEP PARTS OF THE WALL. 

 SEEDY TOE. 



The result of uneven bearing of the shoe, the formation 

 of furrows between the sole and wall, direct violence, aa 

 blows, or the too tight hammering of clips, etc., this is 

 manifested by an irregularity or dryness of the affected 

 part of the wall, and the formation of a cavity, filled with 

 horn powder between the laminae and the wall of the hoof. 

 Clear out the cavity until the tough healthy horn is 

 reached, then fiU with warm tar and shoe carefully to give 

 a uniform bearing. A chp may be useful as a support to 

 the undermiued horn but it is destructive to hammer it 

 tight. The dressing must be repeated at each shoeing 

 imtil the cavity is filled up. 



INELAMMATION OF THE SECRETING MEMBRANE OP THE FROG 

 WITH DISCHARGE. THRUSH. 



Causes. Exposure to wet and filth ; standing on dung, 

 or in a dirty, wet yard ; stuffing the feet with cow- dung ; 

 bruises of the frog ; undue paring ; wounds of the frog ; 

 accumulation of dried mud or gravel in the cleft ; exten- 

 sion of disease from the skin of the heel, etc. 



Symptoms. Foetid discharge from the cleft, soreness of 

 the skin behind this, lameness or not according to severity. 



Treatment. Wash out the diseased part, pare away, all 

 ragged detached horn, and apply some astringents (dry 

 calomel pressed in on a pledget of tow ; tar with a few 

 drops of sulphuric acid on the surface ; carbolic acid ; oi 

 finely powdered sulphate of copper or zinc). 



CANKER. 



This is a more inveterate inflammation of the frog, and 

 it may be the sole, representing in the horn-secreting 



