To thejEditor of the "NonrH-CHiNA Dany News" sin—A sound foot is the basis of a sound leg and an unsound foot brings endless trouble. The foot sup-paris the horse and no experienced horseman will ever doubt the saying that without the foot there can be no horse.
Comparatively few owners know "what a perfect hoof looks like. Some will even say that they have never had a bad-footed pony in their stable. Such a statement generally means that no personal attention is ever 4 paid to healthy feet and, on going through some of these so-called good-footed stables, we generally find Several cases of brittle feet, contracted feet, a poor dried-up suggestion of a frog where the healthy frog should be, and even cases of thrush and sand crack. Moreover the soles are often thin and quite unable to stand any of the knocking about which they' are bound to get when working.
Many owners are getting wiser and now pay more attention to their horses' feet with the result that they hardly ever have any foot troubles in their stables. They use hoof ointment every day on the feet of all the horses that have any foot trouble whatsoever. The expense is negligible and the ultimate saving enormous. All that is required is just a smear all round the coronet to the heel every night. This helps nature by resuscitating the horn growing cells in the coronary cushion, which in turn feed all the horny structure of the foot or, in other words, it increases the action in the coronary cushion which produces the healthy horn throughout the hoof including ihe.sole. After a few weeks use, the new horn will be noticed growing down from the top, the heel gets uller and a new healthy frog begins lio push its way down. In a few months you have none of the old dried-up suggestion of a frog left, but a clean healthy foot with a thick strong sole and a healthy rubbery frog that will stand hard work and plenty of knocking about. This is no fairy-tale but a fact realized by all who have studied the care of the feet. Veterinary surgeons the world over use hoof ointment as an invaluable aid in their practice and those who use it once are never May I inquire through the columns of your paper, of both beginners and experienced stenographers, whether they agree that there is no, advantage in taking dictation from a reader they have had for six months? My own experience teaches me that a familiar reader is a great advantage as I know his pronunciation, his inflection, his voice, and his manner. My speed is easily 10 to 15 words a minute higher with a familiar reader. Do other stenographers agree with me on the point?
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