Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . it to its natural length, roundingits outer edge at the same time, and leaving the sole, bars, frog, and heels in all theirnaturalintegrity. Osmer, an old writer of good standing, in 1751 said : — I believe there are many horses that might traveltheir whole lifetime unshod on any road, if theywere rasped round and short on the toe ; becauseall feet exposed to hard objects become thereby moreobdurate, if the sole be never pared : and some,by their particular form, depth, and strength, ar
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . it to its natural length, roundingits outer edge at the same time, and leaving the sole, bars, frog, and heels in all theirnaturalintegrity. Osmer, an old writer of good standing, in 1751 said : — I believe there are many horses that might traveltheir whole lifetime unshod on any road, if theywere rasped round and short on the toe ; becauseall feet exposed to hard objects become thereby moreobdurate, if the sole be never pared : and some,by their particular form, depth, and strength, areable to resist them quite, and to support the weightwithout breaking ; and here a very little reflectionwill teach ^us whence the custom arose of shoeinghorses in one part of the world and not in Asia there is no such custom of shoeing the horseat all, because the feet acquire a very obdurate andfirm texture from the dryness of the climate andthe soil, and do really want no defense. But everyrider has a rasp to shorten his horses feet, whichwould otherwise grow long and rude, and the crust. Fig. 587.—Shoe Fitted for Cur-ing Corns. From Coleman. of the hoof would most certainly split. SHOEING. 75 He continues by saying,— From the good that was found to arise from putting shoes on horses whichhave naturally weak feet from being brought up on wet land, the custom of puttingshoes on all kinds of feet became general in some countries. Our ancestors, the original shoers, proposed nothingmore, I dare say, in their first ef-forts, than to preserve the crustfrom breaking way, and thoughtthemselves happy that they hadskill enough so to do. The mod-erns also are wisely content withthis in the racing way. In process of time the fertilityof invention and the vanity of man-kind have produced a variety ofmethods ; almost all of which areproductive of lameness ; and I amthoroughly convinced from obser-vation and experience, that nine-teen lame horses out of every twentyare la
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