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THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



time. I have shod a g-reat number of feet hi this condition 

 and always with the best results, w^hile a bar shoe could not 

 have been used to advantage. 



Now let us take another foot with both heels contracted. 

 To look at it hastily it would suggest a bar shoe at once^ 



Fig. 68— Shoe used when both Heels are contracted. 



but on more careful examination Ave find the foot hard and 

 the frog as hard as a chip and almost crowded out of 

 existence. Now^ let us see if a bar shoe would be the best 

 for tliis foot. We think not, for, if we apply the bar shoe 

 and get a direct frog pressure^ the pressure on the internal 



