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fit inside of heel, so as to spread right at the heels. After the 

 horse has worn these shoes a few months, and had his feet spread, 

 other shoes can be used. There are many kinds of shoes to expand 

 horse's feet. This shoe I like the best. 



Out No. 9 shows the runover-foot, caused by unequal weig:ht on 

 the double heel. One is higher than the other, and, rolled under, 

 that turns the toe in and out. The best place to see how that is is 

 to look at the horses; there you can see it ten times better. And 

 if you want to see how 'this expansion and contraction works, take 

 a piece of stiff paper, strike circle the size of the horse's foot, cut 

 out a goring-piece runmng to point in the center, about the size of 

 the frog, then close up the space, you will see it will raise in the 

 center in the form of a cone ; let it down a small degree, mark 

 around the circle; do that way several times until it comes down 

 to a tiat rest; you can see the circle is growhig larger every time 

 you let it down. This is the way this works on all feet. It is all 

 summed up in leverage. To illustrate this a little more, in order to 

 make all as clear as I can, I will take one leg and foot of the 

 horse. The foot is the base, or foundation, figuratively. We will 

 say the leg is a column. If you want it to stand perpendicular you 

 must make the bottom of the base true and work from the center. 

 There must be a center perpendicular line pointing to the center of 

 this earth, and you must do your work so your column will balance, if 

 you want it to stand, and it must balance all around the center. 

 This is the way the dressing on the bottom of a horse's foot must be 

 done. Remember, you are working around a center; when you are 

 paring the bottom of the foot of the horse you can throw him off of 

 balance all around the center of his foot by cutting away the bot- 

 tom of the base, and it is all leverage-balancing in all ways over a 

 center or fulcrum of leverages. 



Now I will try to convey to you how these fulcrums of levers 

 " work, and what shape they throw the horse in has already been 

 told many times. There *is a horizontal fulcrum at the center of 

 the foot raising and lowering in the center. There are three ful- 

 crums of levers at the toe of the foot, caused by contraction and 

 improper work done on the feet, throwing the horse off of balance 

 in many ways, and there should be none to hold him there. If all is 

 in harmony he will be balanced in the centers all over ; then he can 

 take the advantage of this lever-power at will and balance and throw 

 his weight back and forward, and in all ways, around the great 



