The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 548.—The plate as attached. * A preparation of tar, beeswax, hard soap, and resin, melted and formed into asalve, to be used with oakum as a packing, was given the writer by a horseman ofmuch experience, as the best for this purpose, claiming that it softened the f
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . Fig. 548.—The plate as attached. * A preparation of tar, beeswax, hard soap, and resin, melted and formed into asalve, to be used with oakum as a packing, was given the writer by a horseman ofmuch experience, as the best for this purpose, claiming that it softened the feet andstimulated the secretion of horn. SHOEING. 705. bearinof >iG. 549.—Forward shoe to preveut strikiug. From Dr. Hamills collection. nec<T suyjporting. As it is, liowevef, seriously objectionable tocover the whole bottom of the foot M^heu it can be avoided, I in-clude cuts of an improvement liy which the A\^holesurface of the froo- and heels,the important parts, can besupported without the sole be-ing excluded fr(jin moisture orair, which is important for thesecretion of healthy horn. Insuch a case, if desired, theplate instead of being let tothe inner edgfe of the bar(which is mainly made so inthe cut to give it a more dis-tinct appearance), can be ex-tended across the quarter, sothat the upper surface will come e\en witli that of the shoe, and be riveted on. The main point in the management of interfering is to have the shoe close under tlie wall at the point of striking, and the of-fending part shortened or straightened a little, and that there be no nails driven there, the clinches of which would soon rise and cause cuttin
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