HORSESHOEING. 



191 



Fig. 211. 



Only the second and third classes of wry hoofs require 

 especial attention. First, the more oblique wall must be cut 

 down, and the steep wall spared, — a procedure which differs 

 essentially from that employed in treating the first class, but 

 is, nevertheless, entirely warranted, because these second and 

 third kinds of wry hoofs do not correspond to the direction 

 of the limb. 



In order to take weight from the steep wall, we use with 

 advantage a bar-shoe, which should be longer and ^^dder than 

 the hoof on its contracted 

 side. In other words, enlarge 

 the base of support by mak- 

 ing the branch of the shoe 

 broader. If an entire side 

 wall and quarter is con- 

 tracted the branch of the shoe 

 beneath must be broad, the 

 border bevelled base-wide. 

 and the branch punched so 

 deeply that the nail-holes 

 will fall upon the white line. 



In old work-horses any 

 sort of shoe may be used, 



A wry right front foot of the base-wide class, 

 viewed from behind. The bar shoe is fitted 

 full along the contracted inner quarter, and 

 though a flat shoe serves the snug on the outside. The inner branch of the 



° _ ^ frog rests upon the bar of the shoe; the outer 



ig branch is free. The inner quarter from the last 

 nail back to the frog is free of the shoe. 



purpose best If a hoof 



wry from faulty paring, and 



we cannot at once completely restore the proper relative slant 



of the two walls by paring alone, we may use a shoe with 



a thicker branch for the half of the hoof which is too low 



(too steep). 



In colts such wry hoofs can often be cured only by shoeing. 

 The shoe employed for this purpose is "SO made that the branch 

 imdemeath the steep (contracted) wall is quite thick, but gradu- 

 ally thins away aroimd the toe to the end of the other branch. 

 In strongly marked cases the thin branch may end at tlie middle 



