THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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Shoeing with Tips — Shoeing Stumbling and Knee-Sprung 



Horses — Shoeing for Corns. 



As regards shoeing- with tips, I think it depends upon the 

 nature of the foot to he shod. If the heel is low, there is 

 generally a good healthy frog, and in most cases a light 

 sole, and consequently the tips could not he let into 'the 

 foot. In my practice I find that tips are a good thing for 



Fig. 116— Diagram used by "J. C" to Show the Correct Augle. 



some feet. For instance, if a foot is contracted at the heels 

 and has a high wall and the foot is hard, and there is a 

 thick hard sole and a small hard frog, pinched on either 

 side hy the bars, then I say put on tips. I make the tips 

 of steel, and taper them down from the toe to the heel,Iiav- 

 iiig the heel half as thick as the toe, hut making the heel in- 



