ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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 Interior of the shoeing shop, Mounted Service School . Frontispiece. 



Plate I.— Tools 11 



II. — Anvil and tool boxes 13 



III. — Section of forge 14 



IV. — Sagittal section of digit and distal part of meta- 

 carpus of horse 33 



V. — Skeleton of digit and distal part of metacarpus of 



horse ; lateral view 36 



y I. — Third phalanx of horse ; lateral view 37 



VII. — Lateral view of foot of horse after removal of hoof 



and part of skin 38 



VIII. — Ground surface of foot of horse after removal of 



half of hoof to show corium 39 



IX. — Digit of horse, showing surface relations of bones 



and joints. The cartilage is largely exposed. . . 40 



X. — Right fore hoof of horse; gi'ound surface 43 



XI.— Foot of the horse.. 34 



XII. — fRaising the foot. Three positions for foot (third 



XIII. — \ raised for clinching) 46, 47 



XIV. — The foot axis and the pastern axis 49 



XV.— Level of the foot 54 



XVI. — Preparation of the foot 56 



XVII. — Normal shoes ■. . . 58 



XVIII. — Foot improperly shod and neglected 68 



XIX, — Special shoes for correction of faults in gaits 73 



XX. — Weighted shoes ' 76 



Pathological shoes 76 



XXI. — Extension toe 77 



XXII. — Quarter crack (before and after treatment and 



shoeing) 87 



XXIII. — Raising front foot of refractory horse ; also hind foot, 



first method .' 106 



XXIV.— Horse in stocks 108 



XXV. — Harness for throwing horse 109 



XXVI. — Throwing the horse for shoeing ^ 110 



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