56 THE ART OF HOKSE-SHOEING. 



wearing such a shoe is lameness, and it achieves no good 

 which cannot be as well reached by simply letting the 

 foot alone. 



Fig. 34.— Foot-surface sloped outwards. 



The foot-surface, which inclines downwards and 

 inwards like a saucer, acts in an exactly opposite waj^ to 

 the other. The wall cannot rest on the outer edge of the 



Fig. 35.— Foot-surface sloped inwards. 



shoe, and consequently falls within it, the effect being 

 that at every step the hor.se's foot is compressed by the 

 saucer-shaped bearing. This form of surface (Fig. 35) is 

 frequently seen, and is at all times bad and unnecessary. 



