American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . terfering almost every time. If the side weight is heavyenough it will throw the foot out, and the trouble isovercome. There are only a few horse-shoers that have anypractical experience in making side-weight shoes,which we understand from the articles in our tradejournals. Some horse-shoers in shoeing to stop interfering willmake common shoes shorter than they ought to be andset them far in under the foot, so that the hoof on theinner side will stick out over the shoe a quarter of aninch. These they dont rasp off, and everybody kn
American Blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual . terfering almost every time. If the side weight is heavyenough it will throw the foot out, and the trouble isovercome. There are only a few horse-shoers that have anypractical experience in making side-weight shoes,which we understand from the articles in our tradejournals. Some horse-shoers in shoeing to stop interfering willmake common shoes shorter than they ought to be andset them far in under the foot, so that the hoof on theinner side will stick out over the shoe a quarter of aninch. These they dont rasp off, and everybody knowsthat the hoof adheres to and rubs harder against theleg than the hard smooth shoe. But, foolish as it is,such shoers stick to their foolish ideas. I call all suchfads faith cures. The rule is to have the side weight on the outer side,while the exception is to have the side weight on theinner side of the foot. For old and poor horses groundfeed and rest is better than any kind of shoes. It willgive more strength and more flesh to spread the legs, CHAPTER X. HOW TO SHOE A KNEESPRUNG OR KNUCKLER NEESPRUNG is the result of disease thatsometimes is brought about by bad ^shoe-ing. In a healthy leg the center of gravityis down through the center of the leg andout at the heels. This is changed in a case ofkneesprung legs, giving the legs a bowed ap-pearance. This trouble always comes on gradually; insome cases it will stop and never get worse, while in oth-ers it will keep on until it renders the horse useless. Ahorse with straight legs will sleep standing, but a knucklercannot; he will fall as soon as he goes to sleep, onaccount of the center of gravity being thrown on a lineforward of the suspensory ligaments. The cause ofthis trouble is sprain or injury to the back tendons ofthe legs; soreness of the feet, shins or joints. In oldcases nothing can be done but just to relieve the straina little by shoeing with a long shoe and high heelcalks, with no toe calk. In cases not more than
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