30 RATIONAL HOUSE-SHOEING. 



ance has been the cause of all the woe, has 

 abundant reasons to offer for the disease, 

 and his unfailing resort of the " Bar Slioe? 

 This atrocious fetter is supplemented with 

 leather pads, sometimes daubed with tar, 

 and the horse hobbles to his task. Not 

 unfrequently the crust at the front of the hoof 

 sinks in, adhering to the sole ; circulation 

 being cut off, 



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is then manifest. 



The only possible relief from these compli- 

 cations is in natural action. Contraction is 

 not present, but we want circulation, new 

 growth and absorption; we obtain it by 

 dressing the foot smoothly with the rasp and 

 putting the bearing evenly upon the frog and 

 a light shoe, which should be merely a con- 

 tinuation of the wall of the foot. Many very 

 bad cases shod in this way have been re- 

 lieved. No grease or tar should ever be 

 used. 



