SHOEING. irr 



horsies, who, from an irregular shape of the 

 foot called turning out the toe, are addicted 

 to a kind of curve in action against the fet- 

 lock joint of the other leg) the evil is con- 

 stituted to a certainty ; but when it arises 

 from these causes, it is always to be removed 

 or greatly mitigated by the judicious in- 

 terposition of the Smith, whose particular 

 province it is to discover and remedy the 

 defect. 



Another cause of this inconvenience very 

 frequently proceeds from what I have ever 

 considered a palpable absurdity in the system 

 of shoeing, and anxiously wish to under^fo 

 a general improvement : this is the inconsist" 

 enty ridiculous^ and I may almost venture to 

 add, invincible folly in forming a groove in the 

 Web of the shoe, neither large enough nor 

 deep enough to admit the head of the nail, 

 for the entire reception of which the plan 

 \vas originally formed ; though seldom or 

 ever made sufficiently wide to complete the 

 purport of its first intention. 



The disadvantage arising from this w^ant 

 (or prostitution) of judgment in execution, is 



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