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worn rounding a little : consequently, to be exact, let the 

 heels be drawn back rather thin, and the toe turned up a 

 little in the order of a sled-crook, and concave, the middle 

 part, and toe the outer edge cup-shape, touching the 

 ground first. Such a shoe should be made of steel to be 

 stiff enough, and will wear much slower than iron. Soft 

 iron will wear out too quickly. Still better, in my judg- 

 ment, is drawing down the heels of the shoe to a wedge- 

 like shape, so that there is just room enough to run out 

 to an edge at the point of the heel, which may be turned 



(No. 20.) (No. 21.) 



A view of a foot with the shoe as it View of a foot with the shoe too short, 

 should be fitted. The toe is not otilv cut away too 



much, but the heel is too short. 

 Will soon spoil the foot. 



up a little over the heel. This enables all that is required 

 for preserving the foot, and gives the sole and. frog nat- 

 ural contact with the ground. You should do something 

 towards supplying the feet with moisture when standing 

 much in the stall. The course I take during the day is to 

 throw a little bedding under the fore-feet, upon which I 

 throw water enough to wet it. At night remove this, and 

 put in dry bedding, or you can mix some flaxseed meal 

 with water, and stuff the feet. 



THIN-HEELED SHOES. - EXPERIMENTS. 



Some years ago a well-known veterinary surgeon called 

 my attention to experiments made by a livery man, who took 

 it into his head to shoe his horses with tips, or thin-heeled 

 shoes. All alike were shod in this way. He said " many of 

 them had sore and weak heels, and corns, and I thought he 

 would spoil the horses by such shoeing, and driving them on 



