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The average weight of a horse-shoe should be eight 

 ounces. Remember this is for a trotter. Make the 

 shoe fit to the edges of the wall so that there will be 

 no rasping done on the outside. In farm and draft 

 horses this is impossible, as there is hardly a foot of 

 such a uniform shape but what some has to be 

 rasped off. 

 ■ Use No. 4 nails, or No. 5. 



Don't rasp under the clinches of the nails. 



Make the shoes the shape of No. i, Figure 8. 



HOW TO SHOE A HORSE" WITH POOR OR 



BRITTLE HOOFS 



Sometimes it is difficult to shoe so as to make the 

 shoe stay on on account of poor and brittle hoofs. In 

 such a case the shoe should be fitted snug. Make a 

 shoe with a toe clip. 



HOW TO SHOE A WEAK-HEELED HORSE 



In weak heels the hoof is found to be low and thin 

 from the quarters back. The balls are soft and 

 tender. The shoes should not touch the hoof from the 

 quarters back to the heels. An endless bar shoe is 

 often the best thing for this trouble, giving some frog 

 pressure to help relieve the pressure against the heels. 



