Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 581.—Toe-crack. Fig. 582.—Toe-crack. SHOEING. 73 Nine tenths of the workmen who resort to this practice cannot explain its object,and those who have written in defense of it say it is to allow the descent of the soleand facilitate the lateral expansion of the hoof. Fancy our gardeners cutting and rasping the bark off our fruit-trees, to assistthem in their natural functions, and improve their appearance ; and yet the bark isof no more vital importance to the tree than the horn of t
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 581.—Toe-crack. Fig. 582.—Toe-crack. SHOEING. 73 Nine tenths of the workmen who resort to this practice cannot explain its object,and those who have written in defense of it say it is to allow the descent of the soleand facilitate the lateral expansion of the hoof. Fancy our gardeners cutting and rasping the bark off our fruit-trees, to assistthem in their natural functions, and improve their appearance ; and yet the bark isof no more vital importance to the tree than the horn of the sole wall and frog areto the horses foot.
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