on of the nails, length of the
fuller (crease), and the closeness of the ends of the shoe to the
branches of the frog.]

_A shoe for a base-wide hoof_ should be fitted full on the inner side of
the foot and fitted close on the outer side, because the inner side
bears the most weight. The nails in the outer branch are placed well
back, but in the inner branch are crowded forward toward the toe.

[Illustration: FIG. 8.--Side view of hoof and shoe shown in fig. 7. Note
the straight toe, weak ring formation running parallel to the coronet,
clinches low down and on a level, length of the shoe, and the
under-bevel at the toe and heel.]

_A shoe for a base-narrow hoof_ should be just the reverse of the
preceding. The outer branch should be somewhat longer than the inner.

_A shoe for an acute-angled hoof_ should be long in the branches,
because most of the weight falls in the posterior half of the foot. The
support in front should be diminished either by turning the shoe up at
the toe or by beveling it under the toe (fig. 5a).

_A shoe for a stumpy hoof_ should be short in the branches, and for
pronounced cases should increase the support of the toe, where the most
of the weight falls, by being beveled downward and forward.

In many cases, especially in draft horses, where the hoofs stand very
close together, the coronet of the outer quarter is found to stand out
beyond the lower border of the quarter. In such cases the outer branch
of the shoe from the last nail back must be fitted so full that an
imaginary perpendicular dropped from the coronet will just meet the
outer border of the shoe. The inner branch, on the other hand, must be
fitted as "close" as possible. The principal thought should be to set
the new shoe farther toward the more strongly worn side. Such a practice
will render unnecessary the widespread and popular fad of giving the
outer quarter and heel calk of hind shoes an extreme outward bend. Care
should be taken, however, that in fitting the shoe "full" at the quarter
the bearing surface of the hoof at the quarter be not left unsupported
or incompletely covered, to be pinched and squeezed inward against the
frog. This will be obviated by making the outer branch of the shoe
sufficiently wide and punching it so coarse that the nails will fall
upon the white line.

_Hot fitting._--Few farriers have either the time or the skill necessary
to adjust a cold shoe to the hoof so that it will fit, as we say,
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