. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. I'KKT OF TllK IIOUSK ; TIIKll! DISICASI' 245 )uiid. <ilJAl!TEK CUACK Cut across the lop, the bearing taken off at the bottom, and What to do.—Remove tlic shoo and luduce the wall of tliat (|uai-ter, to take oft" tlu! ht'ariug. If it is broken tlirouji'ii into Uic (]uick, take ;i sharp .shoeing knife and pare down the edges of the erack tiie whole length, enough to relieve the pinciiing, and for a distance of half an inch on each side of the crack, to make it more pliable. Then take eith
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. I'KKT OF TllK IIOUSK ; TIIKll! DISICASI' 245 )uiid. <ilJAl!TEK CUACK Cut across the lop, the bearing taken off at the bottom, and What to do.—Remove tlic shoo and luduce the wall of tliat (|uai-ter, to take oft" tlu! ht'ariug. If it is broken tlirouji'ii into Uic (]uick, take ;i sharp .shoeing knife and pare down the edges of the erack tiie whole length, enough to relieve the pinciiing, and for a distance of half an inch on each side of the crack, to make it more pliable. Then take either a sharp knife or a red hot iron, witii an edge to it, and cut or burn across the crack at the top, right through to the (juiek. Make the cut at least an inch long ; this is to start a new iioof and make it grow down and naturally. If the crack does not extent! clear tln-onghthc iioof, it is not neeessary to pare away the edges. If tliere is no lameness, you may be certain it is not broken througli into the quick, for if it is tlie horse will go lame. It is a good plan to cut or l)urn across flic ci-ack at the toj), and take oft" the bearing at the i)ottom, but do not cut oi' bmii so deep as in the more severe ease. Then have a plate either of brass, copper or iron, half an inch wide, and an inch and a half long, screwed on across the crack; have the screws about a quarter of an inch long, and screw them into the hoof, while an assistant draws the edges of the crack together with a pair of pinchers, the horse at the time standing on the other foot to take the weight off the one operated on. As the foot grows, the plate will have to be moved down, about once a month or six weeks, or, perhaps, not ., ,, . , ,, . ,. il 1 .• lAKTEU CKACK, oitener than once ui two months'^, aeeordmg as tiie hoot grows fast or slow. If flesh grows up lietwccn the (^dgcs of the crack, burn and shod it down witli ])owdered blue viti'iol, applied once .-i da\-. AVhen it is dry, and the soft p
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