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should not be filed down, and then, only those on the 

 inside quarter. 



Necessity of Frog -pressure. If the crust and heels of 

 a horse's foot be allowed to grow too long, the frog will 

 contract, shrivel up, and become diseased, owing to 

 the absence of the pressure which is essential to its 

 healthy development. In such a case, the means to be 

 adopted for curing the complaint should be the opposite 

 to that which induced it, namely, allowing the frog to 

 get as much pressure as possible, by lowering the heels 

 and crust as far as is compatible with the horse being able 

 to walk bare-foot without tenderness. No shoes should 

 be applied until the frogs have recovered their natural 

 size, while the animal ; in the mean time, should get plenty 

 of walking exercise on soft ground. If the feet be 

 brittle, tips may be used. 



Prevention of Knuckling over and Tripping. Horses 

 often knuckle over with the hind feet, as well as trip 

 with the fore, on account of the profile of the foot not 

 being upright enough. Rasping down the toes, or rais- 

 ing the heels will be the proper preventive means. In 

 harness especially, horses frequently knuckle over 

 behind, from not being sufficiently held together. In 

 draught, an animal is more " by his forehand," than when 

 in saddle. 



Prevention of Speedy Cutting and Brushing. By pro- 

 per shoeing we can generally prevent speedy cutting, 

 which is the act of a horse striking the inside of one 

 foreleg, close below the knee, with the inside edge of the 

 shoe of the opposite fore-foot. Horses that turn out 

 their toes ("dish"), are very liable to this accident. It is 



