SHOEING HORSES. 



TRIMMING THE HOOF. FORM OF SHOE. How TO CURE 



THE WORST CASES OF CONTRACTION. NEW TREATMENT. 



HOW TO CURE ANY CASE OF QUARTER-CRACK AND 



KEEP THE HORSE AT WORK. HOW TO SHOE A STIFF OR 



SORE FOOTED HORSE, SO THAT HE WILL GO BETTER, &C. 



THE damage and loss to the people of the country from 



bad shoeing and ignorance of the 



principles of keeping the feet in 



health is almost incalculable. But 



few good horses at maturity do 



not show marked contraction of 

 the feet, with 

 some one of the 

 difficulties arising 

 therefrom, of 

 corns, thickening 

 of the lateral car- 

 tilages, quarter- 

 crack, thin weak 

 heels, and other 

 causes of soreness 

 and lameness in (No i) 



the feet ; all trace- 7 Metacarpal or shank bone. 

 oV>l^ f/^ Ko^l oVino H Sesamoid bones. 



able to bad shoe- 12 _ 13 The great pastern . 



ing Or ignorance 14-15 Little pastern or coronary 

 P , bone. 



of the nature and i6-coffin bone, 

 requirements of 

 Front ^iew 2 'of the tne f ot m shoeing. It is the horses, too, 

 bones of the foot, that are naturally the best, and exception- 

 ally valuable on account of their great do- 

 cility and safety, that are the greatest sufferers from this 

 cause. 139 



