The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-02-25
rhG Brightest Paper in this Section.
LIVE STOCK MATTERS.
some REMEDIES FOR INTERFERING
FEsT IN HORSES.

what the FsteyfRArT Writers Say About
I@TbeiT KnesvlsdFe Sst Zee Extern
sive- Young HsFses Interfere wAsn
They Arc Firsd anA Out OF Condition.
In trrning 70 our text books We find in
this, &c ia many ether cases, only the
most nleager notices, under such heads
as brushing and cutting, ETC.. g g.: In
Professor Williams in many respects eT-
oellent work on veterinary surgery he
dismisses the subject with the following:
Brushing or cutting is caused by the
shoe Of enc foot striking against the fet-
lock Generally It is the hind limbs
that suffer, but not always
Young horses out of condition often
do this when they are tired and ex-
hausted They must be shod with pre-
ventive shoes. When horses have been
sharpened during frost they are very
apt to tread themselves, and sometimes
very severely, causing extreme lameness.
Older writers like Youatt have gone q
little farther, and describe it under the
head of cutting. He says: The inside
shoe or the hoof of the opposite foot.
Many expedients used to be tried to 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 the practitioner.
THE most successful remedy, and
that which in the majority of cases 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 on the inside Of the shoe. care being
taken that the shoe will not extend be-
yond the edge of the crust, and that the
crust shall be rasped q little at the quar-
tiers. he then continues: There are
some defects, however. in the natural
form which are the causes of cutting,
and which no continuance viii remedy,
as when the legs are placed too near to
~nah atAeE, velAeta tho faat arc turned
inward or outward
"A horse with these defects should be
carefully examined 20 the inside eff the
fetlook. and if there are any sore or
eallous places there viii be a good req
son for not purchasing the animal
Some horses will cat only when they
ara fatigued, or lame and old Many
colts will cut before they arrive at their
full strength
Professor Dick says: Cutting, brush
ing, interfering are said TO take place
when the one foot strikes and wounds
the opposite fetlock, and they usually
occur IN young and tin1id horses with i'll
formed legs. The habit requires either
a particular fern of shoe. with which
the shoeing smith Is familiar. or so put
ting en- the shoe that the crust win pro-
tect beyond It A boot Is sometimes re-
quired."
One of the most frequent causes Is
when a defect OF the hoof brings the
ankle over the inside heel: Il Is then
placed, whsa sdvaaccd too much, In
front Of the other foot; this viii hs az
gravated il this other on being advanced
has 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.