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HORSESHOEING. 



The toe forms an angle with the ground of forty-five to fifty 

 degrees (see Fig. 68). The direction of the wall at the toe, 

 viewed from the side, should be parallel with the direction of 

 the long pastern. 



A hoof of the hase-wide position (Fig. 80) is always awry, 



because the outer wall is 

 naturally somewhat longer 

 and decidedly more slant- 

 ing than the inner (see Figs. 

 63 and 64). The plantar 

 border of the outer wall 

 describes a large arc, whose 

 sharpest curvature is where 

 the side wall passes into 

 the quarter. The plantar 

 border of the inner wall is 

 straighter (less curved) ; 

 the outer half of the ground 

 surface (sole) of the hoof 

 is, therefore, wider than the 

 inner. So long as the hoof 

 is healthy, both branches of 



Right fore-hoof of the regular position: a, the frOg are equally dovel- 

 side-wall; 6, quarter; c, beginning of the bar; d, « , 



buttress; f, middle of the bar;/, body of the sole; Opod. ilie WryUCSS 01 ttlC 



/', branches of sole; g, white line; g', apparent ■, r -, _ i^ ,,^„„ +1^„ j; 



end of the bar; ;», body of the frog; i, branch of hoof dcpcuds UpOU the dl- 



the frog; A;, bulbs (glomes) of the heel; ?. middle ^q^^I^q^^ of ^he limb; thcrC- 

 cleft of frog; m, lateral cleft of frog. _ ' 



fore, a base-wide hoof 

 should be regarded as a normally wry hoof, to distinguish it 

 from hoofs which are wry from disease. 



A hoof of the toe-wide position (Fig. 81) is distinguished 

 from the preceding by the bending or curvature of the plantar 

 border of the outer toe and inner quarter being often decidedly 

 less pronounced than on the inner toe and outer quarter ; there- 

 fore, two short curves and two long curves lie opposite each 

 other; in other words, the inner toe and outer quarter, lying 



