. Care and training of trotters ... frog, bars and soletrimmed out until they were thin enough to give under thepressure of the thumb, and where the frog is dried up andshrunk out of all semblance of a natural frog, and the foot 66 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. is contracted and hard, and attempt to drop this sort of asole and frog- upon the ground, certainly it would not beadvisable unless the feet were well softened first, and horsethen turned out into some place where the footing wassoft. When a condition as this presents itself, it is best todress the foot down in gradual stages. I never
. Care and training of trotters ... frog, bars and soletrimmed out until they were thin enough to give under thepressure of the thumb, and where the frog is dried up andshrunk out of all semblance of a natural frog, and the foot 66 CARE AND TRAINING OF TROTTERS. is contracted and hard, and attempt to drop this sort of asole and frog- upon the ground, certainly it would not beadvisable unless the feet were well softened first, and horsethen turned out into some place where the footing wassoft. When a condition as this presents itself, it is best todress the foot down in gradual stages. I never heard of a case where sole pressure lamed ananimal, nor have I ever heard of a wall splitting loosefrom the foot for the want of sole pressure. Of coursethere are exceptions to all cases, but generally when wefind rare cases of this sort there may have been a hundredand one different causes that have brought them on, causesthat probably seem too insignificant for the average horse-man, or horseshoer, to notice in their
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