SPECIFIC AND REMEDIAL SHOEING. 237 



foot is to be raised from the ground to prevent the toe tripping 

 or stumbling. 



To make the shoe, cut a bar of the required width and 

 thickness, and shape the shoe from toe to heel, making quarters 

 the same as an ordinary shoe. ISText, take a round, blunt full- 

 ering tool, and scoop out at points A, A, gradually thinning 

 from inside web to outside web. After swedging, clip oft' with 

 a chisel the surplus to the circle of the foot; then hot-rasp the 

 outer rim of shoe, leaving the ground surface as seen in the 

 preceding diagram. 



If Fig. 127 is properly made, and the foot placed on its 

 natural angle, the worst cases of tripping and stumbling can be 

 prevented. 



If calkins are required for winter use, set the toe calk well 

 back from the front of shoe, and weld on side heel calkins. 



This style of shoe can be successfully employed in giving 

 the horse graceful knee action, as it will allow the toe to break 

 over quickly and an increase of weight will cause the muscles 

 of the limbs and shoulders to be brought more into play in lift- 

 ing the feet from the ground. 



Another shoe to accomplish the same result is the four-cal- 

 kin shoe, made as described and shown in Fig. 101 ; both shoes 

 will give a sprightly down grade style of action. 



To increase hock action, if front shoes weigh 20 ounces 

 each, make hind shoes 18 ounces or in that proportion, for in- 

 creased or diminished weight. Any ordinary shoe will answer 

 the purpose for the hind feet, by having increased weight in shoe 

 the reflex action of picking up the foot is increased, which; 

 causes the hock to bend more and lift the foot higher from 

 the ground, and the graceful eftect is heightened with increase 

 of speed. 



Fig. 128. By shoeing with the style of shoe on the opposite 

 page — properly made and applied — the weight being principally 

 in the toe, at the extremities of the muscles, the action will be 



