. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . Fig. 33.—Heels low—toe long. toe may be usefully gauged by the condition of the j unc-tion between wall and sole. When the sole is sound andstrong, all the wall above its level—wall unsupported by■sole and showing on its inner aspect marks of the horny PREPARATION OF THE FOOT. 3& laminsB—may be rasped down so that a firm bearing^surface is obtained, consisting of wall and sole. In Fig. 23, tbe bearing surface at the heels is belowthe line marking a proportionate foot. The toe is toolong and projects beyond the transverse toe line. Theside vi
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . Fig. 33.—Heels low—toe long. toe may be usefully gauged by the condition of the j unc-tion between wall and sole. When the sole is sound andstrong, all the wall above its level—wall unsupported by■sole and showing on its inner aspect marks of the horny PREPARATION OF THE FOOT. 3& laminsB—may be rasped down so that a firm bearing^surface is obtained, consisting of wall and sole. In Fig. 23, tbe bearing surface at the heels is belowthe line marking a proportionate foot. The toe is toolong and projects beyond the transverse toe line. Theside view shows the low heel and the correspondingexcess in the slope of the wall in front. The lowertransverse line in each figure does not represent theground, but is added to make clear the height of heelsand length of toe. Important as it is to maintain the relative propor-tions between the front and back parts of the foot, it isperhaps even more important to preserve the balancebetween the two sides of a foot. Both sides must be leftof
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