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to the desired perpendicular position. The difficulty that 

 often faces one in carrying out this plan is this : the outside 

 quarter has become worn so low by the unequal weight it has 

 carried, that in attempting to bring the inside quarter suffi- 

 ciently low enough to reverse the slope of the foot, there is 

 danger of so reducing the wall as to make the patient 

 "tender footed." In the case of a young foal, all one can 

 do is to endeavour to keep the two quarters of the hoof as 

 nearly level as possible, using the rasp to balance the in- 

 equalities of wear and tear until such time as shoes can be 



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put on with safety; then the trouble can be tackled in 

 earnest. If, when preparing the foot for the shoe, and 

 after having lowered the inside quarter as much as can 

 safely be done, it is found that the desired slope cannot be 

 obtained, the shoe should be put on with a strip of sole 

 leather under the outside quarter, which overcomes the 

 difficulty. The foot, now protected from wear by its iron 

 shoe, will make even growth all round, and at the expira- 

 tion of three weeks or a month will require removing and 



