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pressure with the fingers and thumb. Heavy horses 

 seem to be the ones mainly affected, and in connection 

 with this fact concussion can hardly be the cause, injury 

 from stepping on one another, and heredity, greatest of 

 all, are the probable causes. The symptoms are lame- 

 ness with a stilty action and shortness of the gait, har- 

 dening and enlargement of the cartilages. 



The treatment is not satisfactory, blistering and firing- 

 doing no good only in the earlier stages. A bar rocker 

 shoe with frog pressure, fomentations and rest, later work 

 on soft ground, will be about the best treatment, some 

 people have the animal nerved if the lameness continues; 

 above all do not breed from a stallion with sidebones, and 

 if judging throw out a stallion so affected always. 



Thrush is a disease of the frog usually following lack of 

 pressure to the frog and consequent lessening of the blood 

 supply; from the dung and urine being allowed to accu- 

 mulate in the feet, or too much moisture. 



There is often lameness, and an offensive smell from 

 the affected frog, in some cases it has a cheesy-like ap- 

 pearance; if the frog is allowed to spoil under the condi- 

 tions mentioned, the heels turn in, unless kept low, and 

 the foot becomes contracted. Pick and clean the feet 

 out once daily; if thrush is present, after cleansing the 

 part and cutting away the diseased portion, press in burnt 

 alum, cover with tar, or use 



Bluestone 1 ounce, 



Lard 1 ounce, 



Tar 2 ounces. 



Powder the bluestone, mix it with the lard and tar, 

 and place over a slow fire so as to melt and thus mix the 



