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INDEX. 



Growth of hoof, 17. 



Height of calkins, 61. 

 Height of foot at heels, 34. 

 Hoof, the, 5. 

 Hoof, growth of, 17. 

 Hoof, wear of, 18. 

 Horny laminae, 7. 

 Horse-shoeing competitions, 123. 

 Hot fitting, 82. 

 Hunting shoe, 58. 



Importance of horse-shoeing, 2. 



Importance of roughing, 88. 



Injury by clips, 99. 



Injury by nails, 98". 



Injury by shoe, 100. 



" Interfering," 105. 



Iron and rubber combinations, 121. 



Judging horse-shoeing, 125. 



" Knocked-up " shoes, 104. 



Laminae, the horny, 7. 

 Laminaj, the sensitive, 14. 

 Lateral cartilages, the, 22. 

 Lateral proportions of foot, 39. 

 Leather soles, use of, 117. 

 Length of toe, 35. 

 Level bearing-surface, 43. 

 Long and short heels of shoC; ?4. 



Machine-made shoes, 67. 

 Material for horse-shoes, 50 

 Modified Charlier shoe, 87. 



Nails, 63. 

 Nail-holes, 63. 

 Nail-holes, portions of, 65 

 Nail-holes, pitch of, 66. 

 Nail-holes, number am? position, 



66. 

 Natural bearing-surface Of foot, 29. 

 Notches on shoes, 59. 



Omnibus-horse shoes, 70. 



One-sided hoof, 39. 

 Opening the heels, 46. 

 Outline fitting, 73. 

 Overgrown foot, 34. 

 Over-lowered heels, 38. 

 "Over-reaching," 105. 

 Over-reduction of hoof, 47. 



Paring the sole, 42, 45. 



Paring the frog, 42. 



Pitch of nail-holes, 66. 



Plantar cushion, 23. 



Pneumatic pad, the, 119. 



Position of calkins, 61. 



Position of nails, 64. 



Preparation of foot for shoeing, 30. 



"Pricks,"' 99. 



Properly prepared foot, 31. 



Properties of hoof, 19. 



Proportions of heel and toe, 35, 



Rasps, 32. 



Rasping the wall, 45. 



Relation of foot to leg, 35. 



Removable " sharps," 95. 



Results of neglect, 3. 



Ridged shoes, 59. 



"Ring-leathers," 118. 



Rodway's shoe, 58. 



Roughing, 90. 



" Rough " nails, 91. 



Rubber pads, 118. 



Sandcrack, 111. 

 •' Saucer" shoe, the, 79. 

 Screw frost sharps, 95. 

 Scre^nng taps, 96. 

 Seated shoes, 55, 78. 

 Section of foot, 20. 

 " Seedy-toe," 116. 

 Selection of shoes, 70. 

 Sensitive frog, 16, 

 Sensitive laminae, 14. 

 Sensitive sole, 15. 

 Sliarping, 90. 

 Sharps without screw, 96. 

 Sheather's pad, 120. 



