Show hoesr HORSE SHOEING in shoeing horses the fro frog of the foot should never be cut only tri trimmed med very sparingly the life of the foot is in in this part and if it is cut it dries up becomes small and pinched inched and essentially injures jures the foot I 1 eave have bave observed that this is the practice invariably with the best horse some blacksmiths pare the heel strong strong and the toe light such men do not understand their busi busl business noss if the heel ia is cut away too much and the toe left lons ions it forces the animal to bear too heavily on the heel which sometimes occasions tender feet both the heel and the toe should be pared so as to give a handsome form to the foot and to let iet the horse find equal support on the tha whole surface of the foot A good sheer gives the horse a heel sufficiently high to make it strong V and firm not nob uncommonly are shoes set on a horse without any regard to the anatomy of the foot by driving in nails too far back on the heel N nalls nails ails alls should shoula not enter a horses foot back of the quarter it if they do they deprive the foot of its elasticity which nature has provided fora for in order that the body of the horse may not be shaken severely by the force of the blow when he sets down his feet the thickness and weight of 0 the shoes should be determined by the size of the horse when the roads are stony and there are long and hard hills as we have in this country it is desirable to have a solid substantial shoe for a horse to travel on if the shoe be not unreasonably thick the horse does not find himself burdened any more with a heavy shoe than a I 1 light ig lit one I 1 A person of the least reflection must see at once that large and clumsy calks calk s under a horses foot I 1 must be unnecessary in in summer as well as uncomfortable let a person imagine himself raised up in the same manner as horses are with three calks balks on each foot an I 1 inch in length and think how he could travel I 1 in that condition and he will perceive that those long calks balks are a nuisance in the summer for ordinary business draft horses require shoes thus furnished but lilt horses for the road lre are ire better off without them slipper shoes are now much in use with will livery stable keepers sach shoes have a small toe calk but no heel calk on the forward feet the hind feet shoes should be proper properly y calked balked the ile ant any 11 slipper per shoes are comfortable for foi the horse and he can accomplish a journey with them much more easily to him himself seif self than wih wish the old fashioned shoes A horse is not so liable to trip or stumble lewith with such shoes as with those that have hafe long calks balks the only trouble with the slipper broell shoe is in in go going inz up and down clayey hills soon after a rain even in such cases the two calks balks hold bold on and the calks balks anthe on the hind feet have only onix I 1 low calks balks for summer use at any rate maine far |