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be taken in taking- off and nailing shoes on such feet not to 
wrench or hammer the foot heavily. In nailing the strokes 
should be light and the clinches barely sufficient. Anything in 
the way of hard, tight nailing should be avoided. In tender feet 
or weak heels we usually find a strong frog. In such cases a 
bar-shoe properly adjusted would be all that is necessary. 
There are also several kinds of pads or foot cushions which can 
be used with good results. 
Foundered Horses.—If the mobility of the foot is destroyed 
as a result of chronic founder, mobility must be aided by round¬ 
ing the entire shoe or toe. If the foot is entirely stiff, the shoe 
mu§t be so formed that it will roll upon the ground, which can 
be easily done by leaving the inner edge of each side of the 
shoe wide, and turning it down in a half circle. If the sole is 
broken down, or the wall separated at the toe, weight will be 
thrown more upon the heels, and for such cases the shoe must 
be so fitted as to extend well back under the heels. If calks 
must be used, set toe calk well back to inner margin of web and 
level anteriorlv. 
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COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS. 
AMERICAN VETERINARY COEEEGE. 
The twenty-first annual commencement exercises of the 
American Veterinary College took place on the evening of 
Wednesday, March 25th, at Chickering Hall, 18th Street and 
Fifth Avenue, New York City, and the hall was well filled with 
the friends of the graduates and of the college. Delightful 
music was supplied by the Seventh Regiment Band, and the 
Rev. Robert S. McArthur, D.D., opened the exercises with 
prayer. Prof. W. J. Coates, Dean pro-tem. of the Faculty, read 
his report for the year, after which Faneuil D. Weisse, M.D., 
President of the Board of Trustees, conferred the diploma of the 
college (which confers the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Sur¬ 
gery—D. V. S.) upon the following gentlemen : Clarence Fin- 
wood Adams, Danielson, Conn.; Alfred Frederick Bollinger, 
Brooklyn, N. Y.; John Sutherland Buckley, Mount Washington, 
