mediately placed under new
conditions, both as to feed and surroundings. If the horse has been
stable fed, it is advisable to turn it out on grass for two or three
months, preferably in a higher altitude. If the disease has been
contracted while running on pasture, place the animal in the stable or
corral. In the early stages of the disease beneficial results have
followed the supplemental use of lime given in the drinking water. One
peck of lime slaked in a cask of water and additional water added from
time to time is satisfactory and can be provided at slight expense. This
treatment may be supplemented by giving a tablespoonful of powdered bone
meal in each feed, with free access to a large piece of rock salt, or
the bone meal may be given with four tablespoonfuls of molasses mixed
with the feed. Feeds containing mineral salts, such as beans, cowpeas,
oats, and cottonseed meal, may prove beneficial in replenishing the bony
substance that is being absorbed. Cottonseed meal is one of the best
feeds for this purpose, but it should be fed carefully. The animal
should not be allowed to work at all during the active stage of the
disease, nor should it be used for breeding purposes.

FOOTNOTES:

[7] This summary of symptoms is based upon work by Lingard.

HORSESHOEING.

By JOHN W. ADAMS, A. B., V. M.,

_Professor of Surgery and Lecturer on Shoeing, Veterinary Department,
University of Pennsylvania._

Bad and indifferent shoeing so frequently leads to diseases of the feet
and in irregularities of gait, which may render a horse unserviceable,
that it has been thought appropriate to conclude this book with a brief
chapter on the principles involved in shoeing healthy hoofs.

In unfolding this subject in the limited space at my disposal, I can
only hope to give the intelligent horse owner a sufficient number of
facts, based on experience and upon the anatomy and physiology of the
foot and leg, to enable him to avoid the more serious consequences of
improper shoeing.

Let us first examine this vital mechanism, the foot, and learn something
of its structure and of the natural movements of its component parts,
that we may be prepared to recognize deviations from the normal and to
apply the proper corrective.

GROSS ANATOMY OF THE FOOT.

(Pls. XXXII-XXXIV.)

The bones of the foot are four in number, three of which--the long
pastern, short pastern, and coffin bone, placed end to end--form a
continuous straigh