tlie work ; and therefore, at present, the Author 

 will confine himself to that part of the subject 

 alone, which is absolutely necessary to be under- 

 stood. For horses, therefore, whicli cut their hind 

 legs, the shoe, at the outer heel, should be from 

 half an inch to an inch in thickness, according to 

 the kind of horse, and to the degree in which he 

 may cut. The web of the shoe should gradu- 

 ally become thinner till it reaches the toe, which 

 should be of the ordinary thickness, and from 

 which it should slope off, and end like a tip in 

 the middle of the inner quarter.''' This shoe, in 

 point of effect, would be equally proper for the 

 fore feet, were it not that in such horses as arc 

 used for the saddle, the fore feet being more 

 charged with weight than the hind feet, are more 

 particularly subject to be injured, and a horse 

 thus shod on the fore feet, might go unsafe ; 

 therefore, it is expedient to let the inner quarter 

 of the shoe be thin, and reach to the heel, but 

 the outer edge should be bevelled off, so as to 

 slope inwards. The same kind of shoe is equally 

 well calculated to prevent the speedy-cut; observ- 

 Ino- to bevel off, still more strongly, the part 



* For horses which cut only in a slight degree, a shoe of 

 the same thickness throughout, but reaching on the inner 

 quarter only as far as the middle of the foot, will in most 

 instances be found sufficient. 



