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corn," and puts on more iron in the form of 

 a " bar shoe," Or the same action which 

 produces corns, acting upon the dead, dry, 

 unsupported frog and sole, breaks the arch 

 of the foot so that a '' drop sole " is mani- 

 fest, or " pumiced foot," for both of which a 

 " bar shoe " is the unvarying, j)ernicious 

 prescription. In the Goodenough shoe, the 

 calks are supplied, and the weight so dis' 

 tributed that the objection to the old method 

 does not exist. 



COUNTERSINKING THE NAILS. 



This is a point to which we call attention 

 as of great importance. In shoeing a horse 

 for light or rapid work with a common flat 

 shoe, seven or eight nail-heads protrude, and 

 take the force of his blow on the ground. 

 The foot has just been pared, and those nails, 

 driven into the wall and pressing against 

 the soft inside horn and sensitive laminae, 

 vibrate to the quick, and often cause the 

 newly-shod horse to shrink, and show sore- 

 ness in traveling for a day or two. No mat- 

 ter how skillfully shod, the horse will be all 



