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should be fitted with no nails on the inner 

 quarter, which should be thickest. 



To prevent a horse traveling pigeon-toed is 

 simply to pare off the inner quarter of the toe, 

 and have the shoe fitted as above. By this 

 operation the bearing will be level. This will 

 apply also to a horse for light riding, and for a 

 horse traveling between the shafts ; but for the 

 latter a good block heel on the outer, and a small 

 one on the inner quarter of the shoe should be 

 made ; the toe also to be made thick in propor- 

 tion, to make the bearing level. 



Plate No. id is a representation of a per- 

 fectly healthy coffin-bone, with the upper and 

 lower pastern and navicular bones front, and 

 reverse sides. The system recommended by the 

 author is intended to prevent any pressure 

 whatever on the wing-s of the coffin-bone. 

 Anything that prevents the perfectly free action 

 of the coffin-bone will cause " navicular disease," 

 and " ossified cartilages." After a foot is pared, 

 as recommended in this, so as to be easily 



