. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). Fig. 555.—Adapted for a hind foot in aiding mobility. nailing shoes on such feet, not to wrench or hammer the foot heavily. In winter, if ca
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). Fig. 555.—Adapted for a hind foot in aiding mobility. nailing shoes on such feet, not to wrench or hammer the foot heavily. In winter, if calks must be used, let them be arranged something like Fig. 553; or a low, long calk can be put on well back under the toe. In taking off the shoes, the clinches should be carefully raised, and the nails, one at a time pulled out. In nailing on, the strokes should be light, and the clenching barely sufficient, by repeating light tajj- pings, to turn over nicely. Any- thing in the way of hard, tight nail- ing should be avoided. The shoe should be simply held nicely in place without being pulled tight. There are a great many pads and cushions advertised for tender feet. If rubber pads be put over the shoe, it is seen, in the first place, that nailing on the shoe and turning down the clinches suffi-i ciently tight, presses it down so closely as to take out all its elasticity ; in addition, the heels soon wear and cut through it to the shoe, so that they can have but little, if any, effect in relieving concussion. Leather well fitted between the shoe and foot will, in many cases, help considerably. I have found that making the heel-calks rather low and sharp, and the toe-calks well back about the middle of the bar, greatly helps in breaking concussion on mud roads ; as by their setting into the ground the force of the blow is much lessened. A great many shoes have been devised for the purpose of relieving concussion ; but practically they have proved of but little or no value. The
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