The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-24

CnlcagO report the market last week
as follows:
Expressers and heavy Drafters. S759lS0
IIVV 70 I4UO Cnunks --..---.-.--.....- ZoVg 0O
Coachers and good Roadsters. .......... 9OG26O
Ordinary drivers. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Do 90
The increased demand and ad-
vanced prices developed the first days
of the month have not been fully
maintained, the market closing rather
dull and heavy, and the strongest de-
mand has been for speedy roadsters
and drafters weighing from 100 to
1000 pounds, have been sought for and
are selling well, and plain, medium
weight horses are still dull sale and
probably will be until the eastern
farm trade opens up.
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Joe Patchen, 2.O4, the great Kansas
bred PAGER and king of pacing stall
lions, will make the season of 1896 in
the stable of Gil Curry at Lexington,
Ky. Fee, $3.50 the season. Directum,
2.O5l, the trotting stallion king, will
be stable companion at the same
fee.
80
There are now As trotters in the q
list, IS in the 211 list, lis in 2.12, 188
in 2.23, 293 in pa and 399 in 2.15.
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The records show that Robert j..
2.019. has paced in races one heat in
2.O24, one in 2.012, two in 2.034, one in
2.O34, one in 2.O4, two in 2O48, two in
2.O44, two in 2.O5, three in 2O54, four in
2.O52, four in 2.O6, one in 2O64, four in
2.064, three in 2.O64, one in 2.074, two
in 2.O79, two in 2.O74, five in 2.OS, one
in 2:O84, three in 2:OS!, two in 2:OS4 ,one
in 200, one in 2.O9I, one in 2.O9!, three
in 2.OO3, one in 2.O9l, one in 2.O9!, three
in 2O92, and none as slow as 30. His
record of 2.O1! was against time.
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1t is easily possible to ruin good
horse by bad shoeing in a very short
time. 1t is also possible when horse
is lame from any cause to in measure
remove this lameness and sometimes
entirely cure it by proper shoeing.
Now there are mighty few horse own
ers who give this very important mat
ter more than passing attention, if
any, being satisfied if the shoes the
smith puts on with az or 8 penny
nail, stay on through the season, and
whether the foot fits the shoe or the
shoe fits the foot, they do not seem to
know or even care. To show how i'm
portant these matters are and why
they should not be entrusted to any
but skilled men, L will quote an emin
ent snatomist's description of the
three parts of the foot, which are too
often butchered by the cheapest men
in the business, on the superstition
that it is only a trivial matter any
way. OF the wall, he says:
"The inner face of its upper edge is
followed out ia a somewhat wide con-
cavity, which receives the coronary
cushion. This concavity is remark
able for being pierced everywhere by
countless minute openings, which
penetrate the substance of the wall to
a considerable depth. Each of these
perforations receives one of the 'viele.
or minute tufts of blood vessels as pro-
lOnged from the face of the membrane
covering the interior of the foot. Be-
low this conesvity, which receives a
large share of the horses weight, the
wall is of equal thickness from top to
bottom. On the whole Of its inner
surface are ranged thin, narrow vert
ical horny plates, in number CORE
spending to the vascular larnia, be-
tween which they are doye-tailed, so
that in the living or flesh sides it is
almost impossible TO disunite without
tearing them The inner face Of the
lower margin is united in solid
manner to the sole through the med
ium of a narrow band of soft, light
cOlored horn, situated between the
two The sole is contained within
the lower margin of the wall and is
concave plate, covering the lower
face of the pedal bone. In structure
it is fibrOus, like the wall, the fibres
passing in the same direction, and are
formed in the same manner by the
tufts of blood vessels projecting from
the membrane which Immediately
covers the bone. These tufts pene-
trate the horny fibre the same depth
as in the wall, maintaining them in
moist, supple condition, such as best
fits them for their office. The sole is
thickest around the outer border, |
where it joins the wall, and thinnest |
in the centre. \ popularity of this
part of the hOof is its tendency to /
break off in flakes on the ground sur
face when the fibres have attained
certain length. The wall, on the con-