. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. THE HOKSB'S foot; SHOEING AUD CAKE. 109 rasp. The frog and sole should be left untouched. 4. The shoe should be as light as possible to last a month's wear. 5. Clinches should be level with each other, and not rasped away. 6. The nails should not extend farther back than about three-fourths of the distance from toe to heel on the outer side of foot, and not more than four-fifths on the inner, and the heads should not project beyond the surface of the shoes. 7. The clips should be ; S
. The family horse : its stabling, care and feeding : a practical manual for horse-keepers . Horses. THE HOKSB'S foot; SHOEING AUD CAKE. 109 rasp. The frog and sole should be left untouched. 4. The shoe should be as light as possible to last a month's wear. 5. Clinches should be level with each other, and not rasped away. 6. The nails should not extend farther back than about three-fourths of the distance from toe to heel on the outer side of foot, and not more than four-fifths on the inner, and the heads should not project beyond the surface of the shoes. 7. The clips should be ; SHOEma DEFECriVE FBKT. Inteepeeing is striking the inside of the pastern or above it with the shoe of the opposite foot. It is generally caused by toeing in or out, or by such defective formations of the foot, as are illus- trated in figures 20 and 33. Various forms of shoes have been devised to correct the evil, the inner quarter being narrower and thicker than the outside. The inside quarter of the hoof is pared enough more than the outside to equalize the difference in the thick- ness of the two sides of the shoe. It is then nailed on like any other. Pumice Foot is one of the sequelae of acute laminitis or founder, of which more is said in the next chapter. The hoof becomes light, soft and spongy, the sole loses its elasticity and concave form, and sinks doWn tmder the pressure of the coflSn-bone. For this evil and some forms of navicular disease, the following device has proved beneficial: Plates, shaped as shown in figure 67, are cut from an old saw-blade, the temper having first been drawn. A small tongue of metal is left at the toe and a hole is punched in it. The edge of each plate is heated and struck into the beveled upper surface of the shoe, giving it a slight concavity downward. The shoe is perforated with a rivet-hole at the toe, as shown in figure 68. The foot is nicely leveled, the frog, sole and bars being left untouched, and the shoe fitted to it. The plate is
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