Hoofs Of Young Animals

We saw recently an instance of the ill affects resulting from the neglect to sliorten the excessivoly long hoofs of young horses. A colt with unusually long hoofs had, in his play, stepped on some hard BUbstance, breken' off tbo front part of the hoof to the quick. The accident was attended with some bloeding and excessive lameness, the poor follow being mSffiUilYPu A'H Wrf NíWMÍ itílAVBa-'fífnV animal much pain, and the owncr might have had the profit of threo month's growth instead of having it arrested for ftat period. But the oceasional breaking off of a part of the hoof is but a trifle when eompared with other mischiefs resulting from the same cause. When the toe is too long the strain on the fetlock-joint is greatly iacreasfd, and pmn[vneiit iiijtliy to the uspensory ligament of the foot often follows. Young horses frequently lüive wind galls and other evidenees of sprains before they are put to work, und in ninetynine cases out of a hundred these are where shortt-ning of the toe has hco.n m-glected. On some gravellyand stony land and hard roads, the hoofs will wear away fast enough, as nature evidently intended they should ; but if horses are kept on good smooth turf, their feet must be kent short by artificial