172 SHOEING. 



A few additional bad effects, but of infe- 

 rior consequence, resulting from injudicious 

 slioeing, may be concisely ranged under the 

 he-ads of raising the shoes too high in the heelsy 

 %vithout due discrimination, throwing tlie fet- 

 lock joint into a distorted position ; corns ill 

 ireaied or horses ill shed, to occasion the im- 

 perfection of c?/^///?^ either before or behind, 

 an evil arising much more from want of pro^ 

 Sessional accuracy in the o^^erator, than any 

 abortive effort in the process of Nature. 

 These are, however, merely superficial incon-- 

 veniences, to be remedied bv such attention 

 and circumspection as no one friend to the 

 animal we tr^at of will ever refuse to bestow. 



Rules for the prevention or cure of th ee 

 are luckily calculated by their brevity for 

 communication or retention. The heels of 

 horses should never be artificially raised, only 

 in exact proportion to the state of their feet, 

 the season of the year, and their manner of 

 going, not witliout some additional reference ; 

 to the road orcour^try they generally travel ; 

 all which every Smith of the least emi- 

 nence should perfectly understand from jor^c- 

 iical experience^ v/ithout a !on.g table of con- 



