. The horse's friend [microform] : the only practical method of educating the horse and eradicating vicious habits, followed by a variety of valuable recipes, instructions in farriery, horse-shoking, the latest rules of trotting, and the record of fast horses up to 1876. Pratt, O. S. , b. 1835; Pratt, O. S. , né 1835; Horse-training; Horses; Chevaux; Chevaux. 'â ?:â 'IT-^ w 432 TREATISE ON HORSESHOEING. I''. bar and crust, and should in no part extend beyond the outer edge of the crust. It is too often the case that the shoe is made according to the smith's notions of what the form of the hor
. The horse's friend [microform] : the only practical method of educating the horse and eradicating vicious habits, followed by a variety of valuable recipes, instructions in farriery, horse-shoking, the latest rules of trotting, and the record of fast horses up to 1876. Pratt, O. S. , b. 1835; Pratt, O. S. , né 1835; Horse-training; Horses; Chevaux; Chevaux. 'â ?:â 'IT-^ w 432 TREATISE ON HORSESHOEING. I''. bar and crust, and should in no part extend beyond the outer edge of the crust. It is too often the case that the shoe is made according to the smith's notions of what the form of the horse's foot should be, and the foot is pared, burned, and rasped until it fits the shoe. Now, it should always be borne in mind that the shoe is intended for the foot, and not the foot for the shoe, and that it is therefore peculiarly proper to make the shoe fit the nat- ural form of the foot. It is impossible to have the foot of a horse sound and safe, for work and use, after bringing it to an unnatural figure, by the use of the knife and rasp. The foot of the horse being elastic, it expands to the weight of the horse, in precisely the same degree, whether resting upon the most open or the most con- tracted shoe. Therefore, the shape of the shoe cannot possibly affect the shape of the foot. The form of the foot is determiri' 1 by the situ- ation of the nails If tn#» ^ils are placed so that the inside quarte .iid heels r ^ left free to expand in a natural ...mn^i-, no shape which. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pratt, O. S. , b. 1835. Toronto : Hunter, Rose
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