SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



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Different kinds of feet requiring different depths of hold. None of 

 the nails should be so far to the inside of the wall as to press on the 

 sensitive parts, (see figure 6,) nor so near the out edge as to split or 

 break the hoof; and as a mark of fair and uniform driving, the nail 

 points should come out all about one height. The rasp should be 

 used to finish off mth, but should be applied but sparingly to the 

 upper part of the hoof, and wherever it has gone the surface should 

 be coated over with a composition of greasy and resinous matters to 

 stop its pores and prevent its drying &nd cracking on the surface ; 

 this should be done occasionally to the feet of all horses going much 

 in snow and wet. 



It is only horses used for heavy draught that should be shod with 

 toe caulkings ; and where the animal is to be used for saddle only, 

 even the heel caulks had better be avoided on the fore feet, as in 

 figures 14 and 16. Of course this only applies to summer. In 

 winter, when the roads are icy, there is a necessity for caulks to give 

 foothold, but even then the inside caulk should always be left blunt 

 for fear of its cutting the other leg. 



Fig. 12. 



