. The Street railway journal . eand utility of the entire animal. Thepropermanagement, then, of the horses foot at all times, in health or disease, ought to bea subject of the greatest interest to all horseowners. But in all books published uponthis subject, it will be found that theteachings in regard to the management ofthe horses foot are but the reflections orreiterations of what was asserted by auth-ors of forty and fifty years ago. Earliernotions still prevail, and seem to possessthe authoritativeness of gospel truth. Butthey are in reality the veriest nonsense. mis pads, which are first
. The Street railway journal . eand utility of the entire animal. Thepropermanagement, then, of the horses foot at all times, in health or disease, ought to bea subject of the greatest interest to all horseowners. But in all books published uponthis subject, it will be found that theteachings in regard to the management ofthe horses foot are but the reflections orreiterations of what was asserted by auth-ors of forty and fifty years ago. Earliernotions still prevail, and seem to possessthe authoritativeness of gospel truth. Butthey are in reality the veriest nonsense. mis pads, which are first to be soaked in water,and then inserted in the hollow of the shoe;wet sawdust, wet moss, wet turf, and thelike. It is still further asserted by theseself-same authorities, that a hard woodfloor is productive of injury to the writer undertakes to say that a clean,wood floor has never yet injured a horsesfoot, provided the foot was properly man-aged. But it is true that, when drivenover a hard, dusty or muddy road, and. o o o o n D c
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