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- PREFIX.
- RATIONAL Horse-Shoeing.
- INTRODUCTION.
- GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
- SOUND HORSES.
- CHAPTER I. EVILS OF COMMON SHOEING.
- CHAPTER II. FROG PRESSURE.
- CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF THE GOODENOUGH SHOE.
- COUNTERSINKING THE NAILS.
- THE BEVEL OF THE FOOT SURFACE
- THE BEVEL ON THE GROUND SURFACE
- THE CALKS
- CHAPTER IV. HOW TO SHOE SOUND FEET.
- INCIPIENT UNSOUNDNESS.
- CHAPTER V. SIMPLE CASES OF CONTRACTION.
- QUARTER AND TOE CRACK.
- TOE CRACKS.
- CHAPTER VI. DROP SOLE AND PUMICED FOOT.
- SEEDY TOE
- CONTRACTION, OR DROP SOLE, WITH SORENESS AT THE TOE.
- THRUSH.
- CHAPTER VII. BENT KNEES INTERFERENCE, AND SPEEDY CUT.
- INTERFERING AND SPEEDY CUT.
- WORKING UP HORSES.
- STUMBLING HORSES.
- TO INCREASE COMFORT.
- CHAPTER VIII. ECONOMY OF THE GOODENOUGH SHOE.
- FINAL OBSERVATIONS.
- OPPOSING FORCES.
- REGULAR WORK.
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