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Hot and Cold Fitting 88 



Adaptation of the Shoe 90 



Fullering and Punching 91 



Concerning the Nails 91 



Driving the Nails 92 



The Finished Work 92 



Sizes and Uses of Nails 93 



CHAPTER V. 

 Shoeing Young Horses — Action and Gait. 



Practical Balance of Foot and Leg lO^a 



A Cause of Unbalanced Feet IC'S/ 



Condition of Action 104 



Care Bestowed in Colthood lOfl 



First Trial of Shoes lOiJ 



Modifications of Action lOi) 



Care of Horses' Mouths 107 



Handling Young Horses lOS 



Determining the Gait 10!) 



Regulating the Gait 110 



Balancing the Action 110 



The Useful Gait 112 



CHAPTER VL 



Special and General Shoeing. 



Different Kinds of Feet 114 



The Running or Galloping Horse 115 



The Trotting Horse ,. 117 



Records of Champion Trotters from 1 806 to 1894 118 



The Pacing Horse 121 



The Racking Horse ] 21 



The General Purpose Horse 122 



The Draft Horse 123 



Frog Pressure 127 



Proportions of the Hoof 128 



Resetting the Shoes 1 29 



Gait of Speed Horses 130 



CHAPTER VJI. 

 Lameness and Diseases of the Foot. 



Pathological Shoeing 131 



Causation of Diseases 132 



Locating the Lameness • • • • 134 



Laminitis or Founder 136 



Primary or Passive Stage 137 



Acute Stage — Villitis ' 137 



Chronic or Violent Stage 138 



Complications of Laminitis — Dropped Sole 141 



Peditis, Periostitis, Suppuration 142 



Seedy Toe 14:: 



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