44 TREATISE ON HORSE-SHOEING. 



Kaise tlie clenches with the buffer. 



Have only one foot bare at a time. 



Pare out the foot; but leave the frog alone. 



Cut off the heels of the shoe as I have directed. 



Open the nail-holes straight through the shoe. 



Form a clip at the toe, and turn up the toe of 

 the shoe. 



Fit the toe^ then the quarters, and lastly the 

 heels. 



Heat the shoe, and apply it to the foot to see that 

 it fits properly. 



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Cool the shoe, "back-hole" it, and file it up. 



Nail it on with five nails, coming out low in the 

 crust. 



Hammer down the clenches without rasping them, 

 and only rasp the hoof helow them. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 



I have said that ^yq nails are sufficient to hold 

 on a fore-shoe at any kind of work, in any coun- 



