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tlie foot the lowest Your shoe is now made fast to 

 the foot with five nails, three on the outside ^d two 

 on the inner ; also three clips, one at the toe, and 

 one at each side. 



Interfering; TFith Forward. Feet. 



I have known valuable horses, and fast trotting 

 horses, to cut their ankles inside of the leg, and quite 

 often the knee — and badl j, too — with the shoe of the 

 opposite foot, and I think the plan I adopt a good 

 one. The outer web of the shoe should be narrow 

 and light, the inner wide and heavy, with the outside 

 of the hoof pared the lowest When all other plans 

 have failed, this has proved effectual. 



Tlie Bar Slioe. 



The bar shoe is often exceedingly .useful. It is 

 the continuation of the common shoe around the 

 heels, and by means of it the pressure may be taken 

 off from some tender part of the foot, and thrown on 

 another, which is better able to bear it ; or more 

 widely and deeply diffused over the whole foot It 

 is resorted to in cases of corns, pummiced feet, sand 

 crack, cracked quarter, &c. In such cases the bar 

 shoe can be used to advantage, but it should- be left 

 off as soon as it can be dispensed with. 



<|narter Crack. 



Much has been said, and various plans devised, by 

 which to heal a quarter crack, such as scoring with a 



