CHAPTER IV. 



HOW TO SHOE SOUND FEET. 



FF a foot came to the farrier in a perfectly 

 " normal condition, never having been sub- 

 jected to the destructive process of common 

 shoeing, the directions for putting on the 

 Goodenough shoe would be simply, to dress 

 the foot by paring or rasping the wall until 

 a shoe of proper size laid upon the prepared 

 crust would give an even bearing with the 

 frog all over the foot ; then, as the calk wore 

 away, the pressure would come more and 

 more upon the frog and the foot would re- 

 tain its natural state during the life-time of 

 the horse. 



A colt thus shod could not have a corn, for 

 a corn is an ulcer caused by the wings of the 

 coffin-bone pressing upon a hard, unelastic 

 substance. When the horse raises his foot 

 the coffin-bone is lifted upward by the action 

 of the flexor tendon ; when his foot touches 

 the earth the weight of the animal is thrown 



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