SHOEING. 



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generally perpetrated by farriers who consider themselves 

 too hurried, but are in reality too lazy, to undertake the 

 forging of a properly fitting shoe, and so they lay hands on 

 one that happens to be lying by them, and having affixed it, 

 proceed to cut down the foot to its level. The wretched- 

 ness of the animal, when set to walk upon this torturing 

 protector, is precisely like that which we should suffer were 

 our feet to be crushed into boots or shoes that were ever 



FOOT MADE TO FIT SHOE 



SHOE MADE TO FIT FOOT. 



SO many sizes too small for them. By this cruel practice 

 the horn of the foot is seriously injured, and months elapse 

 before it resumes its normal shape and condition. 



Removing too much of the heel-horn is the seventh evil 

 with which we have to deal. This is a very usual practice, 

 and is strongly calculated to make a temporary cripple of 

 the horse so operated upon. It ought to be remembered 

 that the ground face of the hoof should be even, and justly 

 proportioned from toe to heel, and that the sides of it ought 



