SECTION III. 



ON THE KIND OF FEET PECULIAR TO HORSES, AND ON THEIR 

 MODE AND RATE OF GROWTH. 



" I "HE varieties of the foot peculiar to the horse may be said to 

 be innumerable ; but a careful examination of the o'gan, as 

 presented to us in the living animal, will reduce the foot to what 

 may be termed four classes or orders. 



1. The concave or vaulted foot. 



2. The flat foot. 



3. The semi-flat or semi-concave foot. 



4. The narrow or elongated foot, common to Arabian 



horses, the mule, &c. 



The classes of feet here enumerated are so common and well 

 known that, in a brief treatise like the present, it is perhaps 

 unnecessary to enlarge upon them to any considerable extent. 

 A recital of them, however, is necessary, simply because each 

 class of foot will require a difference in shoeing. A want of 

 knowledge of this fact has brought many a theory of shoeing, 

 having some germs of good sense within it, to oblivion. The 



