PIECE OF WIRE IN HEART OF A HEIFER. 
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keeping my improved (?) horseshoes on the feet. I can only 
say that, if a moderate amount of care is taken in making 
and nailing them, according to the directions given, they will 
remain on readily enough. I have found it advantageous to 
make a few alterations in the original shoe; for instance, the 
toe-nail holes I have had countersunk and placed close to the 
division, so as to allow of a strong clip being turned at the 
toe without weakening that part of the shoe. The fullering 
also is only carried as far as the second front nail-hole, and 
the bevelling on the inner surface not quite to the toe part. 
I also make the division somewhat in the form of the 
letter S. 
I always use these shoes on my own horses. I have only 
lost one half shoe in seven months, and that occurred before I 
used any clip to the toe. 
I am perfectly convinced of the benefit to be derived from 
using the divided shoes, especially in cases of badly formed 
and contracted feet, and also for general use. I only wish 
them to have a fair trial. 
PIECE OF WIPE FOUND IN THE HEART OF A 
HEIFER. 
Communicated by Robt. H. Cowell, Veterinary Student. 
The heart I present for your examination belonged to a 
three-year-old short-horned heifer, the property of Mr. John 
Seabrook, of Boreham, near Chelmsford, Essex. She was 
tied up to fatten in January last, and from that time until the 
date of her recent acute attack had always gone on remark¬ 
ably well, excepting about three weeks since, when she was 
observed to be slightly indisposed and to be off her appetite 
for a few days, but having been recently placed upon mangold 
wurtzel, little or no notice was taken of this, her owner 
attributing her indisposition to the effects of the mangold. 
My father’s attention was called to the animal on Tuesday, 
the 2d of April, as he was passing by the residence of her 
owner. He found her.presenting the following symptoms :— 
breathing hurried and laboured ; pulse rapid, weak, and 
scarcely perceptible at the jaw; Schneiderian and conjunctival 
membranes injected; eyelids swollen and nearly closed; 
great difficulty in rising; and constant rigors. Seeing but 
little chance of recovery, and as she was very fat, he°con- 
sidered it best to have her killed. 
