30 TSE HORSil'S RESCUE. 



there was the first scientific principle I ever studied out 

 on the horse. I did not get half of that. At that 

 time I did not know his foot was changed from natural 

 and run over inside, half of double heel pushed up, 

 causing the toe to turn out and ankle in. I saw I 

 could throw his ankle out by lowering the outside 

 heel and outside toe, and the outside heel of shoe and 

 .toe of shoe. That throws the weight on the outside; 

 that will push up the outside heel ; that turns the toe 

 in, brings the foot on a straight line. This principle, 

 followed up, will run the toe in or out by changing 

 the weight on the double heel both forward and be- 

 hind. When the top of heel is even, care should be 

 taken to dress bottom, so as to equalize weight ; give 

 easy toe to raise on, or he will toe in or out to relieve 

 the back tendons. His foot is growing all the time, 

 and when it gets long the strain increases. If it is 

 very long be will be apt to turn out his toes, the 

 ankles turn in. In this ease he will be likely to inter- 

 fere, unless the shoe is reset, the foot dressed and 

 made shorter. This principle will hold good to shoe 

 all horses that are natural, or have not been injured in 

 any way. If they have there is no better principle, 

 if it is done right. If the horse is used right, on any 

 decent road, and is not driven nearly to death, which 

 he often is. And yet other difficulties soon arise 

 after the horse's foot has been ironed a short time. 

 The cup foot suffers the most — it cannot expand. 

 What effect that can have I will tell you. It grows 

 straighter up. The sole, that is, the bottom, rises, and 

 most in the center; that changes the whole structure 

 of the foot, inside and out. That affects the coffin- 



