The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . (No. 13.) (No. 14.) Foot Properly shod, and a foot that has been rasped down too much, in order tofit the shoe, which is too small for it. There is a very grave fault in the fitting and nailing ofshoes, namely: if they happen to be too short, of settingthem well back from the toe, which not only necessitatesdriving the nails so deep into the hoof as to prick and lamethe animal, but also destroys the proportion of the foot bycutting down the toe too muc
The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . (No. 13.) (No. 14.) Foot Properly shod, and a foot that has been rasped down too much, in order tofit the shoe, which is too small for it. There is a very grave fault in the fitting and nailing ofshoes, namely: if they happen to be too short, of settingthem well back from the toe, which not only necessitatesdriving the nails so deep into the hoof as to prick and lamethe animal, but also destroys the proportion of the foot bycutting down the toe too much. (See cuts 13 and 14.)Smiths seem to think it necessary to cut the hoof down tothe shoe, no matter how far under the shell it may is wrong, as the shoe is now pressing upon and nailedto the inside or soft part of the shell, which of itself leadsto soreness and derangement. (See cuts 9 and 10.) Inthe first place the hoof should not be cut away too much inpreparing for the shoe, but should leave plenty of strong,hard horn, through which to nail. In the second place, theshoe should come out even with the hoof; and third, thenails
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