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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



Fig, 128. front foot shoe, for balancing 

 and squaring the action and gait of 

 horses, when inclined to rack or pace 

 and shuffle. 



squared and balanced. In 

 order that the shoe may 

 have the desired efl'ect, 

 the quarters must be well 

 concaved from the ground 

 surface. In proportion 

 then, as the weight is les- 

 sened in the quarters, the 

 toe of the shoe will be 

 relatively heavier. This 

 shoe can be used to quicken 

 the horse's action by being 

 rolled on the ground sur- 

 face. I have used it with 

 the most satisfactory re- 

 sults. 



Fig. 129. This shoe is intended only for slow work in gait- 

 ing horses. If the shoe be made according to the instructions 



following, and head checked 

 down with standing martin- 

 gale, as described in Chap. Y, 

 page 110, balancing the action 

 of horses, a pacer that never 

 struck a trot will trot at once. 

 To make the shoe, select a 

 bar of iron one-half inch 

 0/ thick, and shape the toe and 

 quarters, then with a chisel cut 

 from center of quarters, leav- 

 ing one-half inch thickness at 

 toe. Gradually draw the shoe 

 Fig. 129. improved toe-weight shoe, thinner from toe to heel ; cut 



A, A, Insertion for the frog. ^^ ^ k ^^ ^||^^ f^j, ^^^ ^ 

 B, B, B, B, Concave on ground sur- "^ 



face. The inner edges, B, B, B, B, 





