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Show LIVE STOCK MATTEBS. 60ME RtMEDrES FOR INTERFER1NQ FEET N WOf3E3. Wbt tl YtortiT Vritrn Say A bo of I Tkl Vuntrltig St Tm EiUn-! EiUn-! yiamg Haaec fstvrCer Wtiva Tby- An Tlr4 o4 Oqt f Condition. In tcraing to otrr taxt boots we find in this, m ia toamj etber cases, only th most cieayer aoticea, ender ruch heaB ss braiihiiip &&d cntHnj, eta, g.: Ia Professor Wfliixms' in many respects excellent ex-cellent -work on feterin&ry sorcery he dismissM the subjeet fritb tb following: BruBhuag or cutting is caused by the sho of one foot EtiiMng against the fetlock. fet-lock. 6KeraIIy it is the hind lizaba that suffer, but not always. Young horses oat of condition often do this when they are tired and ex-hauBted. ex-hauBted. They must be shod with preventive pre-ventive ehoee. When horses have been sharpened during a frost they are very apt to tread themselves, and sometimes very severely, causing extreme lameness. Older writers like Youatt have gone a little farther, and describe it under the head of cutting. lie says: "The inside of the fetlock is often bruised by the shoe or the hoof of the opposite foot. Many expedients used to be tried to remove re-move this. The inside heel has been raised and lowered, and the outside raised and lowered, and sometimes one operation has succeeded and sometimes the contrary, and there was no point so involved in obscurity or so destitute of principles to guide th? practitioner. "The most eucccspful remedy, and tbnt which in the majority of cases supersedes su-persedes all others, is to put on a,shoe of equal thickness from heel to toe, and having but one nail, and that near the toe ou the inside of the shoe, care being ta ken that the shoe will not extend beyond be-yond the edge of the crust, and that the cruf t shall be rasped a little at the quarters." quar-ters." He then continues: "There are some defects, however, in the natural form which are the causes of cutting, and which no contrivance will remedy, as when the legs are placed too near to moW oikw, wr Wa tfe foot uro turned ! inward or outward. "A horw with these defects should be carefully examined at the inside ef the f etlook, and if there are any sore or callous places there will be a good reason rea-son for not prtrchsfiing the animal Some horsw will cat only when they ar fatigued, or lame and old. Many colte will cut before they arrive at their full trength.r Professor Dick say: "Cutting, brushing, brush-ing, interfering are raid to take place when th one foot strike and wounds the opposite fetlock, and they usually j occur in young and timid horses with ill j formed legs. The hr.bit requires either a particular form of shoe, with which the shoeing smith is familiar, or so putting put-ting an the shoe that the crust will project pro-ject beyond it A boot is sometimes re- One of the most freqfuest causes is when a defect of th hoof brings the ankle over the inside heel; ft is then placed, whaa advanced too much, in front ef the other foot; this wiil b aggravated ag-gravated if this other m being advanced has a twisted gait, either from weakness, or defective organization or function. As a study this subject has features of significant scientific interest. It belongs to the domain of farriery, where there is much to be learned before the treasures it contains are revealed to us. Horse Breeder. |
