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is otherwise related to the hoof as is described in paragraph a, 

 page 101. 



(e) An obtuse-angled hoof (an upright or stumpy hoof) presents 

 exactly reverse conditions with respect to the distribution of 

 weight within the hoof, and is treated in an exactly opposite man- 

 ner. The surface of support should be increased at the toe and 

 diminished at the quarters. This is accomplished by a shoe pos- 

 sessing the peculiarities described in paragraph 3, page 96, 

 whose nail-holes are directed either straight or slightly outward. 



(d) A base-wide hoof requires the surface of support to be 

 widened upon the inner side of the foot and narrowed upon the 

 outer side, because the inner half of the foot bears the most 

 weight. A shoe having the peculiarities described in paragraph 



4, page 96, accomphshes this end. 



(e) The base-narrow hoof is just the reverse of the preceding, 

 and requires a shoe whose peculiarities are described in paragragh 



5, page 97. While in the normal standing position of the hmbs, 

 viewed from in front, the ends of the branches of the shoe 

 should be equally distant from the middle of the median lacuna 

 of the frog, this is not so in the base-wide and base-narrow 

 positions. In the base-wide position the outer and in the base- 

 narrow position the inner branch should be somewhat farther 

 from the median lacuna than the branch of the opposite side. 



(/) The wide hoof has too large a surface of support, and, there- 

 fore, the shoe designed for it should possess the peculiarities 

 enumerated in paragragh 6, page 97. 



(g) Tlie narrow hoof has already too narrow a base of support, 

 and must not be made smaller ; therefore, the shoe should not 

 have a base-narrow but a perpendicular outer border, as de- 

 scribed in paragragh 7, page 97. 



■ Fitting Shoes to Heavy Draught-Horses. 



What has been previously said concerning shoeing holds good 

 here ; however, the conditions of shoeing are somewhat different 

 in heavy horses, and particularly with respect to hoofs which, 



