. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . rier, whilst witli the other it is driventhrough overgrown horn by the hammer. Skilfullyused, it is unobjectionable, and for the large, stronghoof of heavy draught horses, it saves a great deal oftime and labor. For the lighter class of horses it isunecessary, and for weak feet with a thin horn coveringit is dangerous. The toeing knife cannot leave a finished level bear-ing surface, and its work has to be completed by a fewstrokes of the rasp. A farrier should, therefore, neverattempt to remove all the superfluous horn with theknife; he shou
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . rier, whilst witli the other it is driventhrough overgrown horn by the hammer. Skilfullyused, it is unobjectionable, and for the large, stronghoof of heavy draught horses, it saves a great deal oftime and labor. For the lighter class of horses it isunecessary, and for weak feet with a thin horn coveringit is dangerous. The toeing knife cannot leave a finished level bear-ing surface, and its work has to be completed by a fewstrokes of the rasp. A farrier should, therefore, neverattempt to remove all the superfluous horn with theknife; he should leave some for the rasp, so that in pro- 34 THE ART CF HORSE-SHOEING. diicing the final level surface, no encroachment upon thenecessary thickness of covering horn need be made. The OvEFiGROWN Foot, such as we find on a healthyhorse that has retained a set of shoes for some weeks, orthat has been without shoes on a surface not hard enoughto cause sufficient wear, is quite unfitted to receive ashoo. It must be reduced to j)ioportions. In Fig. 18,. Fig. 18. I have attempted to show diagrammatically a side viewof an overgrown hoof. The dotted lines at the baseshoAV two effects of lowering one part more than another,although both attain a level surface. In Fig. 21, we seethe result of over-lowering the heels, and in Fig. 30, ofleaving them too high. It may also be noticed thatthese conditions affect other parts of the foot; in fact, notonly otiier parts, but the whole foot, and even the rela-tive position of the foot to the leg. If we compare theproportionate foot. Fig. 19, with the diagram Fig. 21, itwill be seen that by over-lowering the heels, the slope ofthe front of the foot is increased, that the bearing sur-face from heel to toe is slightly increased in length, andthat if the dotted perpendicular line be accepted asshowing the direction through which the weight of thebody passes, lowering the heels tends to put an increasedproportion of weight on the back parts of the foo
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