INDEX. 



Action of the foot, 26. 



Agricultural societies and shoeing, 

 122. 



Arrangements of shoeing compe- 

 titions, 123. 



Balls & Keep's "wedge-pad," 120, 



Bar iron, 68. 



Bar-pad, 120, 



Bars of the foot, 7. 



Bearing surface of hoof, 29, 41. 



Bearing surface at heels, 57. 



Bearing surface of shoe, 54, 56. 



Berkshire shoeing- van, 125. 



Bevelled iron bars, 68. 



"Binds," 98. 



Blood-vessels, 24. 



Bones of foot, 21. 



Bruises by shoe, 100. 



"Brushing," 103. 



"Burnt-sole," 102. 



Calkins, 59. 



Calkins, effect of, 60. 



Calkins, position of, 61, 



Cartilages of foot, 22. 



Charlier shoe, 35. 



Charlier theory, 86. 



" Clacking," 106. 



Clips, 81. 



" Close " fitting, 74. 



Coarse nail-holes, 64, 



Cold fitting, 82. 



Concave shoe, the, 58, 



Continental sandcrack-shoe. A, 



115, 

 Contracted feet, 115. 

 Coronary band, 15. 

 Coronary cushion, 24. 



Corns, 100. 

 "Cover," 52. 

 " Cutting," 103. 



Defective bearing-surface, 45, 

 Disproportionate hoof, 34. 

 Distance between nails, 64. 

 Double-grooved shoe, 58. 

 Drawing knife, 32. 

 " Dropped" sole, 110. 

 " Easing " the heels, 77. 

 Effect of Charlier shoeing, 88» 

 Effect of calkins, 61. 

 Effect of frog pressure, 28. 

 Evils of roughing, 93. 

 Excessive rasping, 45. 

 Expansion of foot, 27. 



" Fine " nail-holes, 65. 



Fitting of shoes, 72. 



Fitting of tips, 84. 



Fitting the foot to the shoe, 30. 



Flat bearing-surface of shoe, 53* 



Foals and unshod feet, 48. 



Foot-surface of shoes, 53. 



"Forging," 106, 



French sandcrack instruments, 



113, 

 Frog, the, 10. 

 Frog-pads, 120. 

 Frog-pad, the, 23. 

 Frog-band, the, 11. 

 Frost-nails, 92. 

 Fullering, 57. 

 Functions of foot, 25. 



Good bearing-surface, A, 32. 

 Grooved bars, 68. 

 Ground-surface of shoes, 57. 



