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the hoof, and is treated in an exactly opposite manner. The 

 surface of support should be increased at the toe and diminished 

 at the quarters. This is accomplished by a shoe possessing the 

 peculiarities described in paragraph 3, page 114, whose nail- 

 holes are directed either straight or slightly outward. 



(d) A base-ivide hoof requires the surface of 'support to be 

 wddened upon the inner side of the foot and narrowed upon the 

 outer side, because the inner half of the foot bears the more 

 weight. A shoe having the peculiarities described in paragraph 

 4, page 114, accomplishes this end. 



(e) The base-narroiv hoof is just the reverse of the preced- 

 ing, and requires a shoe whose peculiarities are described in 

 paragraph 5, page 114. Wliile in the normal standing position 



Fig. 123. 



The three principal forms of hoofs shod with flat shoes. 



of the limbs, viewed from in front, the ends of the branches 

 of the shoe should be equally distant from the middle of the 

 median lacuna of the frog, this is not so in the base-wide and 

 base-narrow positions. In the base-wide position the outer and 

 in the base-narrow position the inner branch should be some- 

 what farther from the median lacuna than the branch of the 

 opposite side. 



(/) The wide hoof has too large a surface of support, and, 

 therefore, the shoe designed for it should possess the peculiar- 

 ities enumerated in paragraph 6, page 115. 



(g) The narrow hoof has already too narrow a base of sup- 

 port, and must not be made smaller ; therefore, the shoe should 

 not have a base-narrow but a perpendicular outer border, as 

 described in paragraph 7, page 115. 



