No. 5. 



Number 5. This is one of the first feet to call 

 for an explanation in shoeing, and it is a style 

 of foot often seen and quite puzzling to the 

 smith. The cut represents the bottom of a nigh 

 foot. The tendency of this foot is to grow 

 faster on the outside than on the inside and to 

 grow outward and away from the leg, so that it does 

 not properly support the limb. The rasp should be 

 used on the outside surface, for a foot that acquires 

 this tendency of growth will be found, almost invaria- 

 bly, to be deeper on the outside than on the inside. 

 But do not lower the outside unless it is the deepest. 

 Also rasp off a little of the wall along the outside 

 quarter and towards the toe; do this each time the 

 foot is shod until it gets back into a correct state of 

 growth. Fit the shoe as shown, driving the last nail 

 on the outside well back, a little further back than 

 the nail of the inside. It will be seen that this shoe 

 fits snug, a shade inside of the wall, all along the out- 

 side to the outside toe, even with the wall from this 

 point around to a shade back of last inside nail, and 

 from there back to point of heel full, a little outside 



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