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will be partial, the concussion more consider- 

 able, and the sole will gradually sink and be- 

 come flat, and even convex or pumied. 



The shoe should never be made of a smaller 

 diameter than the foot, particularly at the quar- 

 ters. This plan, however, is generally pursued 

 from the apprehension of the horse's cutting his 

 fetlock joints from the feet being too broad. 

 But a horse seldom cuts whilst his feet are 

 sound and free from pain, except from a natu- 

 ral malposition of his legs. 



He is more liable to cut when his tread be° 

 comes wavering and unsteady by being cramp- 

 ed and pinched from bad shoeing. The foot 

 should not be rasped too much below the 

 clenches of the nails, as it is thereby partially- 

 weakened, and loses its straight direction froni 

 the coronet to the ground, 



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