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it will be seen is not creased and has no nail holes. The 

 effect of this shoe is to make the horse carry his feet out- 

 ward and awa}^ from the other foot, preventing the knock- 

 ing- of the knees together. 



Make a little crease on the inside of the heel and use three 

 nails, as showai in Fig. 20. 



Fig. 21.— Sn)E- Weight and Bar Combined. 



The dotted lines show the position of the foot. All that 

 portion of the shoe outside the dotted lines of course will be 

 entirely outside of the foot. 



I made the first one of these shoes that was ever made, 

 and have corrected more than one hundred cases of knee- 

 knocking horses. I have sliod horses in twenty-one differ- 



