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 . from each side. The shoe is now to be fitted and nailed on moder-ately tight. The treatment for contraction, briefly speaking, is the hoise is lame, the farrier should shorten the toe, lower thefoot all around, and open the heels back, until the blood is dr
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 . from each side. The shoe is now to be fitted and nailed on moder-ately tight. The treatment for contraction, briefly speaking, is the hoise is lame, the farrier should shorten the toe, lower thefoot all around, and open the heels back, until the blood is sole of the foot should be pared as closely as possible on eachside of the frog. The frog should be lowered, but the sides shouldnot be cut. A groove should be made with the rasp, just underand parallel with the coronet on each side, deep enough to di-awblood; then, with a fine shoeing-knife cut little notches down fromthe coronet at equal distances across the entire length of the notches should be deep enough to draw blood. This will re-lieve the pressure caused by contraction of the cartilages on bothsides, and allow them to resume their proper shape. The shoe must be very carefully fitted, and have eight nailholes, for the reason that it is the heel nails that relieve a foot while 43 674 iu coiitniction. It should be so littcd asjo ])j-oject a quarter of aninch on either side of the foot, and so as to see the nail-holes pro-ieetins; on either side of both outer and inner quarter. This accom-plished, the bearing should be equal. The nails should be drivenhalf wav, first toward the toe, then toward the heel. The higherthey are driven the better, the shoe bring fitted so wide there is no fear of jnneking. The nails towardthe heels should be driven by al-ternate taj>s on each side, becausethe foot expands on account of be-ing ])ared so thin on either side ofthe frog. Considerable sorenesswill result from this mode of treat-ment, which may be rel
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