148 NAILING AND RASPING. 



to get a good hold, which you can easily do, if you have left 

 horn enough, and confine yourself to nailing on the out- 

 side and around the toe firmly. The quarters must be 

 given all the freedom possible to prevent any external 

 pressure on them. There should be no rasping under 

 the clinches, and but a bare rounding-off of the sharp 

 edge at the toe. The hoof should not be cut away to the 

 shoe, because the shoe may be a little short, or sets well 



(No. 17.) The ground surface showing the location of the nail-holes to enable 

 ving all the freedom possible to the qua 

 ere is no compression upo:i the quarters. 



back under the toe. Preserve the hoof in its natural 

 shape and bearing, regardless of what the shoe may be. 

 If necessary, smooth off the clinches a little, but omit 

 any thing like .an effort to give the surface a nice finish 

 by rasping the whole or any part of the surface above the 

 nail-holes, and the less below them the better. In the 

 first place, the outside of the shell is by far the hardest, 

 strongest, and toughest, and should be preserved and made 



