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SCIENTIFIC HORSESHOEING. 



and the shank or cannon-bone. When the horse in motion lands 

 his foot upon tlie ground, the heel of tlio foot on the inside be- 

 ing the lowest, the inner muscle will bear the greater strain ; 

 and as the foot leaves the ground, the outer muscle will spring 



back, carrying the foot out- 

 wardly over the outside part 

 of the toe, thus widening the 

 tride as the foot leaves the 

 ii:round, and allowing the hind 

 leg to pass the fore foot and 

 avoid speedy cutting. 



Fig. 143. To equalize 

 the wearing. — This represents 

 a style of shoe adapted for 

 horses that wear heavily on one 

 side of the foot. This often 

 occurs from an inclination of 

 the pastern to lean in or out, 

 thus causing the shoe to wear 

 more on the side to which the 

 foot and pastern leans than on 

 the other. If the wear is great- 

 est on the outside, place the 

 wide branch of the shoe on 

 that side ; and, similarly, if 

 greatest wear occurs on the in- 

 side have the wide web of the 

 shoe on that side. In this way 

 the wearing of the shoe will 

 Fig. 144. hind foot shoe, to pre- ^^^ equalized and the foot and 



VEXT AXKLE CUTTING. ^ 



A to B, Inside heel calkin gradually hmb will be correspondingly 

 ^liinned. benefitted. 



Fig.144 represents a pattern of shoe to prevent ankle cut- 

 ting on horses with long oblique pasterns leaning inward and 



HIND foot side WEIGHT 

 SHOE. 



