826 THE HORSE Altt) HIS STRTJCTTTRE. 



A very natural question is often asked by those who 

 really wish to do their best for the horse, i.e. whether 

 the frog could grow sufficiently to reach the ground when 

 the shoe is on the foot. This it certainly can do, but if 

 the shoe be a thick one, the frog will be obliged to 

 increase to an abnormal depth, and therefore might 

 wrench the sensitive tissues painfully if suddenly pressed 



"CHABLIEB." SHOE, MODIFIED BY FLEMING. 



on one side. Our finger nails, if allowed to grow too 

 long, are apt to produce the same effect. 



There is one shoe, known as the " Charlier," which 

 only covers the fore-part of the hoof, and which, being 

 imbedded in the horn, does not raise the hoof off the 

 ground, and so enables the frog to grow to its proper 

 length. Some little care is needed in putting on the 

 Charlier shoe, and it must be renewed at rather short 



