as possible, cut away the l^ars — there is no dan- 

 ger of your injuring the frog for there is none 

 to injure; take off all the horn on the bottom 

 and open up the heels which have curved in like 



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'Scoring" a Hoofbound or Contracted Wall. 



an ino-rowino- toe nail. If the shoeing knife 

 will not cut it take a small fine saw and saw 

 out a chunk on each side of where the frog is 

 supposed to be ; do not get nervous if you draw 

 a little blood. 



After you have gone as far as you dare to on 

 the bottom of the foot take it forward on your 

 knee and with the corner of the rasp file a 

 groove about three-quarters of an inch below 

 the hair, and extending from heel to heel — clear 

 around the top part of the hoof. File the groove 

 deep — until you see a white — sometimes dis- 

 colored — tissue, known as the "white zone,'' a 

 soft, elastic, (in its natural state) cushion-like 

 substance that lies between the outer wall and 

 the sensitive laminae. Make this groove or 

 channel large enough so you can lay a lead pen- 

 cil in it ; make it especially large back on each 

 lateral quarter where the cartilages are or 

 should be. 



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