HORSE SENSE. 



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bars and sole in their natural condition, except just where the shoe bear- 

 ing comes in contact with the foot. Cut. No. 51. 



Fig. 2 represents a sound but rather flat foot. The heel is well spread, 

 and the frog is large and elastic, which is of the first importance to the 

 free movement of any horse. Cut No. 51. 



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Cut No. 52. 

 GROUND SURFACE OF TWO CONTRACTED FEET. 



Fig. 3 shows the foot which has been shod with thick-keeled shoes, 

 keeping the frog from coming in contact with the floor upon which the 

 horse is forced to stand, or the hard road on which he must travel in his 

 work. In this case the foot has been deprived of nature's cushion (the 

 frog) for warding off a part of the jar to the column of bones above, and 

 also nature's heel-spreader, the result of which is to bring the bearing 

 upon the wall of the foot altogether, which produces more or less in- 

 flammation, and consequent absorption and contraction at the heel — the 

 thinnest part of the wall. Cut No. 52. 



after Haobner 



Cut No. 53. 

 GROUND SPACE AND WALL OF FOUNDERED FOOT. 



