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 . leat the heel, so that thehorn was broken quitethrough, and the sen-sitive structure partlyulcerated. At theclose of the seasonsbusiness, early in June,there was considerableinflammation and sore-ness in the entire foot, in consequence of the aggravated conditionof the
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 . leat the heel, so that thehorn was broken quitethrough, and the sen-sitive structure partlyulcerated. At theclose of the seasonsbusiness, early in June,there was considerableinflammation and sore-ness in the entire foot, in consequence of the aggravated conditionof the corn, despite the fact that all prcssui-e had been carefully kept from it. All palliativemeasures having failed, itoccurred to the writer to trythe experiment of removingall pressure from the part,and turning the horse tograss during the summermonths. But there was an-other serious difficulty, towhich, in part, some of thesoreness might be the contraction or curl-ing under of the outer heel,it had become so weak thatit could scarcely be made toFig. 538.—The shoe as it appeared when on, support his weight in trav-with the outer quarter opened out. ^^.^^^ ^^ -^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ treat this at the same time. The division between the bar and frogof this side was mxII thinned out to make the quarter 698 SHOEING. Next, a thin shoe of uutempered steel, a Httle more than aneighth of an inch thick, was made to fit accurately to the wall(as shown by Fig. 537), the end being turned up for a clip, andfitted nicely to its place. The part of the opposite heel of the shoecoming over the corn, was entirely cut away, leaving simply suf-ficient to cover the wall, which at this point was very thin. Theshoe was now fastened on sufficiently to hold it firmly in place,but with very s^nall nails. There was no rasping or attempt tobeautify the foot in any way. This is never in any case permit-ted by the writer in shoeing his horses. Figs. 536 and 538 give a very good idea of
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