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be puncliecl coarse and in the centre of the web. 

 The manner of fastening the shoe is what 

 really affects the foot, and what requires the 

 most special attention in shoeing, for the foot, 

 being elastic, expands in the same proportion on 

 the rough as on the nicely fitted shoe, it is the 

 number and position of the nails that really 

 affect the foot. | -If they are placed well back in 

 the quarters four on a side, as is common the 

 crust is held as firmly to this unyielding shoe as 

 if in a vice, which utterly prevents the free action 

 necessary to its health. Inflamation of the 

 sensitive lameness as is produced, which causes 

 contraction and the consequent derangement 

 of the whole foot, if the free natural expansion 

 of the foot, and the spreading of the quarters in 

 proportion to the growth of the hoof is prevented 

 by the nailing of the shoe, irritation of the 

 fleshy substance between the crust and coffin 

 bone -^dll result, and ultimately create so much 

 diseased action of the parts as to cause con- 



