To control a front foot a slip-noose is placed about the fetlock and the limb is raised and lashed to the side-bar, the rope passing finally to the hook (_r_). To control a hind foot a slip-noose is placed about the fetlock, the foot carried upward and backward over the rear cross-bar, and, with the front surface of the fetlock-joint resting against the padding of the bar, the limb is firmly secured by wrapping the line several times about the limb and bar. When no stocks are at hand, we may use an ordinary farm wagon or a truck wagon. Tie the ox with his head forward between the front and hind wheels. Fasten the large end of a binding pole to the spokes of the front wheel and let it rest on the hub. Swing the pole close to the ox and induce him to step over it with one hind leg, then raise the rear end of the pole, and with it the leg and so much of the animal’s hind quarters that the inner hind leg standing close to the wagon rests but lightly upon the ground. The binding pole may then be slung with a rope from the rack of the wagon or other stationary object and the outer limb held in the usual manner. By following this method a shoer with one assistant can easily and safely control the most refractory oxen. INDEX Apprentice, 14 Arteries, 41 Articulations, 21 Balanced hoof, 101 Balling with snow, 149 Bar-shoe, uses of, 164 Bare foot, preparing the hoof, 102 Bars, 51 dressing, 99 Base-narrow position, 63, 68 Base-wide position, 63, 68 Beaked shoe, 184 Bear-foot, 72 Bearing-surface of shoes, 117, 127 Blood-vessels, 41 Bow-legged position, 64 Buttress, 100 Calf-kneed, 66 Calk-wound, 173 Camped behind, 68 in front, 66 Cannon bone, 20, 21 Carpus, 20 Cartilages, lateral, 39 Cast iron, 103 shoes, 132 Chadwick spring, 187 Clefts, 203 Clinch cutter, 97 Clinching, 131 Clips, 111 Close-nailing, burning, 166 Contracted hoof, 185 sole, 190 Corn, chronic, 175 dry, 174 suppurating, 174 Corns, 174 treatment, 176 Coronary band, 47 joint, 31 ligaments, 31 Cover-plate shoe, 173 Cow-hocked, 68 Cracks, 195 coronary and bar, 196, 202 plantar, 202 Crest, semilunar, 27 Crooked hoof, 192 Cross-firing, 140 Defay’s shoe, 187 Diseases of hoof, 165 Dressing the hoof, 98 Driving the shoe, 130 Drop-forged shoes, 132 Dropped sole, 178, 182, 183 Elastic parts of foot, 38 Examination before shoeing, 90