C57 3 



wLich strikes, and not to put in any nails there- 

 abouts. And here, it may be proper to remark, 

 that in sound feet, the heel of the shoe should 

 reach as far on the heel of the hoof, as to admit 

 of the ancrle formed by the crust and the bar 

 restino- fuilv upon it, but it should not be carried 

 quite as far as the end of the heel of the hoof. 



In order to ascertain what would happen to a 

 horse shod with different kinds oF shoes, the fol- 

 lowing trials were made. 



EXPERIMENT I. 



A horse with a narrow chest, who had never 

 cut, and having parallel shoes on his fore feet, 

 was trotted at about the rate of eight miles an 

 hour in a straight line, over ground sufficiently 

 soft to retain slightly the impressions of the 

 shoes, but not to admit the feet to sink into it. 



Two parallel lines were drawn along the track, 

 includinor between them the prints of the shoes. 

 By diese it was found, that there was regularly a 

 distance of nine inches and a half between the 

 outer edo-e of the near fore shoe, and that of the 



CD 



off fore shoe. 



EXPERIMENT II. 



Shoes thick in their inner quarter, and like 

 a tip, reaching only half-way on the outer quarter, 



