Fig. I. 



The shoe properly formed, adjusted; and 

 old horse that had never been shod but once. 



nailed on the hoof of a five-year- 



Fig. II. 



The foot as it is ruined by bad treatment. The shoe and nails are too 

 large; the hails too many in number and driven too deep. The shoe is set back 

 too far. The hoof is rasped away so much as to weaken it and destroy its sym- 

 metry. 



PLATE I. 



