which interferes with the free circulation of the blood has 

 caused the horny wall at the heels to collapse. The horse 

 may not go lame, but it should be attended to at once. Re- 

 duce or lower the heels and weaken the wall on the outside 

 with a rasp from the coronary band down. Use a bar shoe 

 with leather pads, pack the feet with tar and oakum. It is 

 also good to paint the coronary band at the heels with iodine 

 or some kind of a blister. The cause of the deformity of 

 such heels might have been caused by leaving the heels too 

 high, or the three-calk shoe may bring about such abnormal 

 conditions. Calks on front shoes are not good, neither are 

 they necessary. If, however, you are compelled to use 

 calks, then use the good enough shoe, that is the best calk 

 shoe to date, because the center of the foot gets its share of 

 carrying weight and thereby takes the strain from the weak- 

 er parts of the foot. In order to keep horses' feet in health 

 and strength, as far as shoeing goes is uniformity of pres- 

 sure. Shoes that produce bearing equally divided all over 

 the bottom of the foot and that should be the shoes for the 

 future use. For winter shoeing, to prevent slipping, 1 

 would recommend the Never Slip Shoe, with the use of an 

 extra calk between heel and toe in shoes number three and 

 larger, in the center of the shoe, and I don't know of a bet- 

 ter wearing calk and shoe than the Red Tip Never Slip. 

 Now, do not misunderstand me, as it may sound like adver- 

 tising, and that it is a money scheme. Neither of those 

 shoe manufacturies know that I am writing this ; they will 

 not know unless they buy a book. I am saying this because 

 their shoes deserve it, as they are an improvement over 

 other calk shoes, and, why not give as well as take? I 

 will try and proceed in explaining to pare feet to where they 

 should be. A foot should be considered a triangle and in 

 normal condition the distance from the center of the foot 

 to the points of the heels should be the same as to the point 

 of the front of the toe. It may be asked, Where do we find 

 the center of the foot? The center of the foot may be 



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