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ARTISTIC HORSE-SHOEING. 



SHOE, WITH PLATE ATTACHED, FOR DROPPED SOLES. 



Fig". 29 represents a shoe with a plate fitted into it which 

 I use in all cases of dropped soles. The object of the plate 

 is to take all the bearing- off of the outer crust or wall. The 

 dropped sole occurs g-enerally in large heavy horses. In 

 using" ordinary shoes the concavity of the bearing- surface 

 throws all the weight upon the wall and very little of the 

 shoe touches the sole. The result of this is that the sole 



Fia. 30.— Stifle Shoe. 



keeps dropping- down. In using- the shoe illustrated in Fig-. 

 29, apply hoof ointment and a packing- of oakum so that 

 the shoe will not bear hard on the wall. This will hold the 

 sole up and take the strain off of the wall and in time the 

 sole will go back to its proper place. It is sometimes a 

 good plan to apply a blister around the coronet to force the 

 growth of the foot and soften it up. 



