. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . FIG. 53.—TOE AND SIDE WEIGHT AND PLAIN RACING PLATES, ASMANUFACTURED BY BRYDEN HORSE SHOE CO. horse-shoeing is not learned in hours; it takes years ofstudy and practice. It is not my intention to treat on this subject. I couldnot; first, because there is not room for such a dis-course, second, there are numerous books on the sub-ject better than I could write, available to every MODERN BLACKSMITHING 137 horse-shoer. I shall only give a few names of suchparts of the anatomy as is essential to
. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . FIG. 53.—TOE AND SIDE WEIGHT AND PLAIN RACING PLATES, ASMANUFACTURED BY BRYDEN HORSE SHOE CO. horse-shoeing is not learned in hours; it takes years ofstudy and practice. It is not my intention to treat on this subject. I couldnot; first, because there is not room for such a dis-course, second, there are numerous books on the sub-ject better than I could write, available to every MODERN BLACKSMITHING 137 horse-shoer. I shall only give a few names of suchparts of the anatomy as is essential to know. Whatthe horse-shoer wants to know is the parts of the footconnected with the hoof, as his work is confined solelyto the FIG. 54. —TOE AND SIDE WEIGHT AND PLAIN RACING PLATES, ASMANUFACTURED BY BRYDEN HORSE SHOE CO. THE WALL The wall or crust is the horny sheath incasing theend of the foot, in the front and on the sides from thecoronet to the ground. It is through this crust thenail is driven, and it is upon this crust the shoe front it is deepest, towards the quarter and heel itbecomes thinner. It is of equal thickness from theupper end to the ground (from top to bottom). Thewhite corored wall is the poorest, while the iron col-ored wall is the toughest. The growth of the wall is 138 MODERN BLACKSMITHING different at different ages. It grows more in a younghorse and colt than in an old horse; in a healthy footand soft, than in a diseased foot and hard. In a younghorse the hoof will grow about three inches in a yearand even more, while it grows less in an old wall is fibrous, the fibers going parallel to eachother from the coronet to the ground. THE SOLE The horny sole is the bottom
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