HORSESHOEING. 



185 



exacting and uj^on hard streets, the toes, especially of the hind 

 shoes, may be made more durable by welding in steel plates. 

 Besides, the shoe should be moderately hase-wide around the 

 toe, — that is, should be bevelled downward and outward, should 

 have a strong toe-clip, and should be quite concave at the toe and 

 rolled. (Figs. 203 and 204). Should the hoof tip fonvard 

 whenever the weight is thro%vn upon the limb, a shoe with a 



Fig. 203. 



Fig. 204. 



Shoe for stumpy hoofs, ^■iewed from ground-surface, hoof-surface, and in profile. 



spur projecting from the centre of the toe, and turning back and 

 pressing upon the wall just underneath the coronary band, will 

 be of ser\'ice (Fig. 202). 



Only those upright hoofs which are the result of the causes 

 mentioned in 3 and 4 are to be dressed as ordinary hoofs, and 

 if the service required is not too exacting they should be shod 

 with tips (Fig. 201), or with shoes with thinned branches. 



3. The Coxtracted Hoof. 



A hoof ichich has deviated from its normal form in such a 

 mminer that its posterior half, either in part or as a whole, is 

 too narroiu, is a contra<:ted hoof. The walls of the quarters 

 assume an abnormally oblique direction downward and inward 

 towards the median line of the hoof. 



