. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 537.—Position of spreaders for measures having failed, itoccurred to the writer to trythe experiment of removingall pressure from the part,and turning the horse tograss during the summermonths. But there was an-other serious difficulty, towhich, in part, some of thesoreness might be the contraction or curl-ing under of the outer heel,it had become so weak thatit could scarcely be made toFig. 538.—The shoe as it appeared when on, support his weight in trav-with the onter quarter opened out. ^^.^^^ ^^ -^ ^.^^ ^^
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 537.—Position of spreaders for measures having failed, itoccurred to the writer to trythe experiment of removingall pressure from the part,and turning the horse tograss during the summermonths. But there was an-other serious difficulty, towhich, in part, some of thesoreness might be the contraction or curl-ing under of the outer heel,it had become so weak thatit could scarcely be made toFig. 538.—The shoe as it appeared when on, support his weight in trav-with the onter quarter opened out. ^^.^^^ ^^ -^ ^.^^ ^^^.^^^ ^ treat this at the same time. The division between the bar and frogof this side was well thinned out to make the quarter flexible. 698 SilOi]lNG. Next, a thin shoe of untempered steel, a Httle more than aneighth of an inch thick, was made to fit accurately to the wall(as shown by Fig. 537), the end being turned up for a clip, andfitted nicely to its place. The part of the opposite heel of the shoecoming over the corn, was entirely cut away, leaving simply suf-ficient to cover the wall, w
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