. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. Fio. 587.—Shoe Fitted for Curing Corns. From Coleman. Pig. 588.—Position of the Spreaders forOpening the Quarter. He continues by saying,—• From the good tliat was found to arise from putting shoes on horses whichhave naturally weak feet from being brought up on wet land, the custom of putting«hoes on all kinds of feet became general in some countries. Our ancestors, the original shoers, proposed nothingmore, I dare say, in their first ef-forts, than to preserve the crustfrom
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. Fio. 587.—Shoe Fitted for Curing Corns. From Coleman. Pig. 588.—Position of the Spreaders forOpening the Quarter. He continues by saying,—• From the good tliat was found to arise from putting shoes on horses whichhave naturally weak feet from being brought up on wet land, the custom of putting«hoes on all kinds of feet became general in some countries. Our ancestors, the original shoers, proposed nothingmore, I dare say, in their first ef-forts, than to preserve the crustfrom breaking waj, and thoughtthemselves happy that they hadskill enough so to do. The mod-erns also are wisely content withthis in the racing waj. In process of time the fertilityof invention and the vanity of man-kind have produced a variety ofmethods ; almost all of which areproductive of lameness ; and I amthoroughly convinced from obser-vation and experience, that nine-teen lame horses out of every twentyare lame of the artist, which is ow-ing to the form of the shoe, his ig-norance of the design of nature,and maltreatment of the foot, everypart of which is m
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