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SHOEING. 



FIG. 597. A shoe devised to prevent 

 throwing much weight upon the limb 

 when lame. 



FIG. 598. Covered shoe, with the 

 branches very wide and thin, and deeply 

 ad justed. Applied to very flat, foun- 

 dered, or badly-formed feet. 



FIG. 599. Ordinary hind shoe for rid- 

 ing or carriage-horses. Face and side 

 view. 



FIG. 600. Shoe with truncated toe ; 

 used on hind feet of horses that over- 

 reach. 



FIG. 601. Lafosse's Half-moon shoe, 

 and tip of steel. 



F ;G. 60S. Scotch shoe for draught 

 horses. 



