12 NOTES ON SHOEING OF HORSES. 



growth of Jiorn at the toe than in other parts. This is a 



the toe. 



beautiful provision for the increased wear and 

 tear to which the toe is subjected in the unshod 

 horse. 



As, however, in the shod horse this increased 

 growth has been protected from wear, though the 

 shoe itself is worn out at the toe, it will obviously be 

 necessary to remove a greater quantity of crust from 

 the toe than from other parts, i. e. at each shoeing 

 the toe must be shortened by the drawing-knife to 

 something hke the same extent to which it would 

 have worn away by friction with the ground in the 

 unshod horse. 



General directions will be given below as to the 

 preservation or non-paring of the sole ; but there 

 is a small portion of the sole which immediately 

 adjoins the crust, in which the fibres of the sole 

 and crust are to a certain degree interlaced, which 

 will need to be removed along with the crust, both 

 because that portion of the sole has been protected 

 by the presence of the shoe from wear, and because 

 from its fibres being interlaced with those of the 

 crust, it will not exfoliate as readily as other parts 

 of the sole. The same stroke of the knife that 

 removes the crust, will also remove all that is ever 

 necessary to be taken away from the sole. 



Increased 15. In some horses, and especially in Arabs, an 

 mtimes increased growth of crust is sometimes found at ilie 



