182 SHOEING 



ier that has been already more than once 

 concisely recommeiidecj to practical circuni* 

 spection. 



That such hazard may be the better 

 ^voided, it will be foimd an insurance of 

 saf^iy, to advance the front nails nearer to 

 the extremity of the toe, where the seat 

 of insertion is much wider, and bring the 

 hinder jiaik farther from the points of the 

 HEEL, where it is not only directly the re- 

 verse, but sometimes too narrow to admit of 

 the insertion without danger. And in all 

 cases, when horses are reinarkably full and 

 fleshy footed, with a heel exceedingly narrow, 

 it is certainly the safest method to let them 

 be shod with the nails entirely round the 

 front of the foot, omitting their insertion in 

 a proportional degree behind. 



La Fos$e, echoed by Bartlet, condemn^j.. 

 the custom of turning up the shoe at the 

 heels, upon the before-mentioned objection of 

 its ^.' reniQving the frog to a greater dis- 

 tance tvQi;^! the ground, by which the ten- 

 don will be inevitably ruptured ;'' but could 

 ihey uow become spectators of the hun>« 



