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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



Fig. 35. front foot shoe fob dropped 

 soles and fob flat, weak soled feet. 



A, Bevel on toe from calk to outer rim. 



B, Long toe calk set back from front. 



as can be safely done, and 

 this operation must be 

 carried forward toward 

 the quarters. In some 

 cases where the sole is 

 badly dropped, it will be 

 found impossible to get 

 more than two and one 

 half to three inches level 

 bearing for the shoe. 

 When the foot is thus 

 prepared apply the style 

 of shoe shown in Fig. 

 35. 



By having the toe 

 set well back on the shoe, 

 the center of gravity will 

 fall more directly under the bearing of the foot and leg 

 bones, and thus the strain will be partly taken off the weak- 

 ened laminae. If the foot be too wide at the heels and quar- 

 ters, clips should be drawn up on both sides of the shoe, opposite 

 the wings of the coffin-bone, that the hoof may be retained from 

 further expansion. Clips are not to be used in front; bevel the 

 front part of the shoe at the toe on the ground surface in order 

 to prevent the horse from stumbling or tripping. Reset the 

 shoes every three weeks, by lowering the heels again, and, in 

 four or five shoeings, the sole will return to its natural concave 

 form. Do not file or rasp the new growth. 



The shoe being nailed solidly at the heels, it will be readily 

 seen that the front part being released, and an open space inter- 

 vening between the foot and the shoe, the foot will press down 

 to meet the shoe at every step which the horse takes forward, 

 and just in proportion as the foot springs down, the sole will be 

 returned to its natural cup-like form. 



