on a horse is the round, flatish foot. As a rule, in such a 

 foot, the frog is large and spongy. Where there is a well- 

 developed frog, the horny wall is also softer and that horse 

 maintains his balance better. Then the horse with the high 

 cup foot, in the last-named foot the frog is generally small, 

 hard and feeble, as the frog is the heart of the foot, in shape 

 and in reality a foot without a frog is like a home without 

 a mother, or a church without the Holy Spirit, so the forms 

 of horses' feet are like men's character, they can give the 

 ease or the disease. 



As I said at the beginning, married life is like horse- 

 shoeing. It is a science. And sometimes I think some men 

 are like some horses' feet, that is, they are not so awful bad, 

 but they are simply not very good. A person's thoughts 

 and actions change for good or for bad like horses' feet in 

 form and size, with age, circumstances and surroundings. 

 Horses' feet are, or will be, just as we treat them. It may 

 now be asked, how should horses' feet be treated, in the per- 

 formance for shoeing? To begin with, in removing old 

 shoes, the clinchers should be cut ; then if the nail heads pro- 

 ject, it is best to pull each nail out by itself or a shoe pull off 

 J3e used and remove the shoe with care. 



After that, a knife may be used to remove the loose 

 parts of the sole, other parts of the sole like the bars and 

 frog, should not be cut. Then a hoof parer is applied and 

 the wall reduced to the white line or on a level with the sole, 

 the foot is then leveled off with a rasp to secure a bearing 

 service for the shoe to rest on. A shoe is then selected and 

 fitted and should only be warm enough in fitting to allow 

 changing of the shoes, if necessary. Burning of the foot is 

 not necessary, neither is it good. No clips or calks should 

 be used on front shoes. Clips may be necessary, and no 

 harm will result from them, if fitted right, but generally 

 where clips are not necessary it is best to not use them. It 

 is a good practice to wet the shoe before nailing- it. When 

 placed on the foot it will show the unevenness of bearing, if 



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