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feet. All team horses and heavy draft horses must be shod accord- 

 ing to their weight and size. I am an endorser of light shoes for 

 all driving horses, as horses pick up and put down during a day's 

 work in the neighborhood of aViOut fifty-three tons of iron, and you 

 will quickly see that the lighter your herse is shod the better it is 

 for him in going a long journey. 



All trotting horses must be shod according to the judgment of 

 their drivers. They should shoe them to balance, and gait them to 

 the best advantage for speed. 



Question. What shall I do for a horse with corns ? 



Answer, Have the foot pared perfectly level ; then fit the shoe 

 to the foot the same as for a sound horse's foot ; then at the quarter 

 where the corn is, take and cut down about one -quarter of an inch, 

 taking right out a chunk of the wall, making a shoulder, so that 

 when the shoe is placed upon the foot the quarter that the corn is 

 on will have no bearing whatever upon the shoe. Put in some good 

 strong liniment or caustic and a little cotton over the corn under 

 the shoe. My idea of a corn is to remove the cause, and the corn 

 will gradully waste away. My idea of shoeing in this way is, if you 

 have a corn on your own foot and you relieve the pressure of your 

 boot from that corn it certainly does not bother you. The same way 

 with the horse. Horse-shoers, in shoeing a horse for this complaint, 

 should use the same judgment that he would for himself. 



Question. How shall I shoe my horse for a quarter crack ? 



Answer-. On exactly the same principle as for corns 



(See engravings of horses shod for quarter crack). 



You must take off" all the pressure that you possibly can ofi* the 

 diseased quarter, throwing it upon the sound part of the foot. I 

 only lay down a few of the principal rules for you to go by. All 

 horses being shod must vary according to the style and shape of 

 their feet, and in all cases the blacksmith must use his own judg- 

 ment. 



