100 SYSTEM FOR TKAIXING CAVALRY HORSES. 



but, wlien tlie season is wet, and the stones worn in, 

 you may pare out the sole of a strong foot, until it 

 will yield to hard pressure from your thumbs ; but 

 you must never pare it thin enough to yield to light 

 pressure. 



Plate 19 shows a good-shaped near fore-foot, pared 

 out ready for shoeing. The toe reaches from A to A, 

 the letter B shows the middle of each quarter, and 

 marks the heels. You will observe that the crust is 

 thicker on the outer quarter, where the nails should 

 be, than it is on the inner quarter, where a nail must 

 never be driven ; and you will also see that the hoof 

 is not a circle, as some suppose, but is straighter on 

 the inside than it is on the outside. D marks the 

 sole, jE^ shows the upper part of the bars, pared down 

 nearly level with the sole, i^ shows that part of the 

 bars which must never be touched by a knife, G 

 marks the frog, and is placed just over the situation 

 of the navicular joint. Examine this frog, it is what 

 every horse's frog should look like, plump, and full, 

 and even, with a broad, shallow cleft, not split through 

 at the back part ; and, if you shoe your horses prop- 

 erly, and never pare the frog, it is what their frogs 

 will come to in time. 



The Shoe. 

 Before speaking about the shoe, the names for the 

 upper and under surfaces must be fixed ; that part 

 of the shoe that rests upon the ground, will be do- 



