SHOEING. 



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if you fail in any of these, you will have eon- 

 traction. 



It is five-eighths of an inch broad all the way 

 round from toe to heel, and one-fifth of an inch 

 thick all the way round from toe to heel. There 

 is a groove sufficiently large and deep to receive 



veterinary surgeon, and in the latter at the celebrated Mr. Tur- 

 ner's : neither in India have my horse's heels ever contracted, 

 and here they have always been shod with this kind of shoe. 



A pattern of the fore and hind shoe is lying at Dady's, in 

 Bombay, which will show the gi'oove, as also the form of the 

 nail, and how the nail-holes are to be punched ; and by which 

 you will see if the nails are properly pointed ; so that the Nolband 

 will have some difficulty in pricking the horse, even if he tries. 



