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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



THE CONCATE-SEATED SHOE. 



our best forges, and promises gradnallv to supersede the flat and the 

 simple concave shoe, although it must, in many respects, yield to the 

 unilateral shoe. 



It presents a perfectly flat surface to the ground, in order to give as 

 many points of bearing as possible, except that, on the outer edge, there 

 is a groove or fuller, in which the nail-holes arc punched, so that, sink- 

 ing into the fuller, their heads project but a little way, and are soon 

 worn down level with the shoe. 



The web of this shoe is of the same thickness throughout, from the 

 toe to the heel; and it is sufficiently w^ide to guard the sole from 

 bruises, and, as much so as the frog will permit, to cover the seat of 

 corn. 



On the foot side it is seated. The outer part of it is accurately flat, 

 and of the wndth of the crust, and designed to support the crust, for by 

 it the whole weight of the horse is sustained. 



Toward the heel this flattened part is wider, and occupies the whole 

 breadth of the web, in order to support the heel of the crust and its 

 reflected part, the bar; thus, while it defends the horn included within 

 this angle from injury, it gives that equal pressure from the bar and the 

 crust which is the best preventive against corns, and a powerful obstacle 

 to contraction. 



It is fastened to the foot by nine nails — five on the outside, and four 

 on the inner side of the shoe ; those on the outside extending a little 

 farther down toward the heel, because the outside heel is thicker and 

 stronger, and there is more nail-hold ; the last nail on the inner quarter 

 being farther from the heel, on account of the weakness of that quarter. 

 For feet not too large, and where moderate work only is required from 



