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The farmer cares for his own stock. He receives the Vet. as 
his guest, they become interested in each other, and a lasting 
friendship results. 
It is very pleasant and exhilarating to sit behind a good road¬ 
ster and glide along amid the beauties of Nature, and receive 
the friendly greeting of those one meets on the road. 
It is a great source of pride and pleasure that the veterinary 
art is rapidly gaining recognition and prominence among the 
professions and that the time is growing short in which unworthy 
persons shall find employment because there are not enough 
qualified men to fill the public want. 
We should all take pride in our business and do our utmost 
to have a good class of men, thoroughly trained, in whose hands 
to place its keeping. 
SHOEING. 
By E. L. Morgenroth, M.D.C., Bottonville, Wis. 
A Paper read -before the Wisconsin Association of Veterinary Graduates. 
I have chosen this subject for the reason that there is so little 
said and published in the veterinary journals of the day about 
this very important subject. The following is intended more 
to bring out an expression from the profession than with any 
thought of contributing anything worthy of note. 
While writing on this subject, it is necessary now and then 
to touch upon the general structure and morbid condition of the 
foot. u As an organ of support, the foot has an essential duty, 
since it is through it that the entire machine is put into connec¬ 
tion with the ground, while the point at which it is placed is in 
fact the support of the limbs, on which all the locomotive agen¬ 
cies work ; as an organ of elasticity, its duty is no less impor¬ 
tant when it is considered what enormous forces the result of 
weight of the animal, combined with its. powerful muscular con¬ 
tractions, all bearing on that apparatus, and that it is the means 
of neutralizing the concussions, which without it would be fatal 
to the entire mechanism and particularly the limbs. As an or- 
