Number 9 is a cut of the "toe out" foot, the 

 ''Icnee banger.^' The position of the bones forming 

 the articulation are shown here, clearly proving that 

 when it is disturbed at the base it interferes with the 

 whole system of joints throughout the entire leg, and 

 that it is the faulty position of the foot, in its toeing 

 out propensity, that gives the inward slant to the leg 

 and makes the elbow cling in close to the body, just 

 the contrary to that of the " toe in " foot as shown in 

 cut No. 11. Cut No. 10 shows the surface of the same 

 foot (No. 9) and the manner of shoeing it and direc- 

 tions for pairing. Rasp off the surface of wall from 

 1 to 2, not too much, from 2 to 3 considerable may be 

 taken off with the rasp. Nothing off from 3 to 5 — 

 foot surface around inside toe— but from 5 to 6 rasp 

 off to make heel same depth as outside. If these 

 heels are not of sufficient depth — as explained under 

 Number 4— to be iu proper proportion, do not rasp off 

 any of the surface wall at the heels. From 4 to 4, 

 after having rasped the surface as already directed, 

 lessen the depth, if it shall require it, equally all 

 around the surface from 4 at about the quarter around 

 the front of the foot surface to 4 at the other quarter. 

 Fit the shoe even with the wall on the outside from 

 1 to 4, snug, inside the wall,from 4 to 3, even with the 

 wall from 3 to 5 and full from 5 back to point of heel 

 at 6. Before fitting the shoe, the foot should be taken 

 up in front of the leg and the protruding outside toe 

 rasped off from 2 to 3 as shown in cut No. 9. This 

 should be done each time the animal is shod until that 

 toe gets into a regular state of growth and in conform- 

 ity to the inside one of same foot. Rasp the outside 

 of the wall down to the shoe at from 4 to 3, but do not 

 otherwise rasp the wall on its outside, above or back 

 of the clinches, and do not rasp off any of the enamel 

 to make the foot look •' puty." 



A foot may "toe out " and the ankle turn in badly 

 from a different cause from the one given here, 

 though such cases are indeed very rare. The " toe 

 in " foot is not apt to be produced— though it might 

 possibly assume that faulty position— from any other 

 cause than that already assigned to it. The toeing 



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