172 SHOEING, 



•A few additional bad effecfls, but of infe- 

 rior confequence, refulting from injudicious 

 Ihoeing, may be concifely ranged under the 

 heads of railing the Jhoes too high in the heels 

 without due difcrimination, throwing the fet- 

 lock joint into a diHortive pofition ; corns ill 

 treated or horfes ill floods to occafion the im- 

 perfeftion of cutting either before or behind, 

 an evil arifing much more from want of pro- 

 feffional accuracy in the operator, than any 

 abortive effort in the procefs of Nature. 

 Thefe are, however, merely fuperficial incon- 

 veniencies to be remedied by fuch attention 

 and circumfpedion as no one friend to the ani- 

 mal wc treat of will ever refufe to beftow. 



Rules for the prevention or cure of thefe 

 are luckily calculated by their brevity for 

 communication or retention. The heels of 

 horfes fhould never be artificially raifed only 

 in exad: proportion to the flate of their feet, 

 the feafon of the year, and their manner of 

 going, not without fomie additional reference 

 to the road or country they generally travel ; 

 all which, every Smith of the leafl emi- 

 nence fhould perfedly underfiand from prac- 

 tical experience y without a long table of con- 

 2 ditional 



