524 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



' 48. The heels of this shoe should not reach the seat 

 of corn, between the bars and crust. 



'49. That in warm climates, and in this country in 

 summer, the wear of the horn exposed to the ground will 

 not be greater than the growth from the coronet. 



' 50. Where the heels are more than two inches high, 

 and the ground wet, it is better to lower the heels by the 

 butteris than to wear them down by friction with the 

 ground. 



'51. It is not safe to employ the short shoe on wet 

 ground, except in blood horses with very thick crusts, 

 and then only with great attention to the consumption of 

 horn. 



'52. The long thin-heeled shoe should rest on the 

 solid junction of the bars with the crust. 



^ ^'^. The nails should be carried all round the toe of 

 the crust. 



'54. They should be kept as far as possible from the 

 heels, and particularly in the inside quarter. 



'' S5' Where the crust is thin, the nail-holes of the 

 new shoe should not be made opposite, but between the 

 old nail-holes of the crust. 



'^ $6. The nail-hole should be made with a punch of a 

 wedge-like form, so as to admit the whole head of the 

 nail into the shoe. 



'57. The head of the nail should be conical, to cor- 

 respond with the nail-hole. 



'58. The shoe and nails of a common-sized coach- 

 horse may weigh about eighteen ounces. 



'59. The shoe and nails of a saddle-horse may weigh 

 twelve ounces. 



