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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



prescription No. 1), and the horse may be worked right along 

 without hindrance. 



This specimen rep- 

 resents the effects of 

 contraction 1)V having 

 the wall grow too deep, 

 the heels wirins; in un- 

 til they came together, 

 from coronet to ground 

 surface, and the foot 

 was hardly more than 

 half its natural diame- 

 ter. The heels over- 

 lapping each other had 

 crowded the bars, frog 

 and inner spur up above 

 the coronary band. As 

 the crowding of the 

 bars thus necessitated 

 a displacement of the internal structure, the coffin-bone was 

 raised behind, the weight presses it forward against the laminfe. 

 The laminae in this part being 

 ■overtasked, soreness and finally 

 lameness ensues. 



In many instances the mule 

 is treated for lameness or strains, 

 when the proper remedy was to 

 have had his feet properly dressed 

 and suitably shod. Do not per- 

 mit the heels to grow to an ex- 

 treme height, pare them down as 

 much as can be safely done. 



In shoeing a foot of this 

 description, open the heels and Fig. 56. mule shoe. 



Fig, 55. Mule's hoop showing effects of 

 overgrowth producing contraction. 



A, A, Line to which overgrowth should be 

 removed at base. 55° indicates tlie present angle 

 of hoof. 45° indicates the angle to which it 

 will conform when surplus growth, B, is re- 

 moved. 



