. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. Fig. 592.—Flat, Convex Sole. Fig. 590, 591.—Sand-crack, or Fissure in Front of Hoof. A deep substance ot horn is found beneath the fissure at the lower part of the hoof,where a corresponding cavity is formed by absorption in the coffin-bone. horse could not travel without having heavy, unwieldy shoes on,and that the greatest skillwas exhibited in the amountof cutting and rasping doneon the feet. He boldly proclaimed thatall this was injurious, andtried to prove it by the mostconvincing a
. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. Fig. 592.—Flat, Convex Sole. Fig. 590, 591.—Sand-crack, or Fissure in Front of Hoof. A deep substance ot horn is found beneath the fissure at the lower part of the hoof,where a corresponding cavity is formed by absorption in the coffin-bone. horse could not travel without having heavy, unwieldy shoes on,and that the greatest skillwas exhibited in the amountof cutting and rasping doneon the feet. He boldly proclaimed thatall this was injurious, andtried to prove it by the mostconvincing arguments. Theprinciples of treatment,though given a hundred and thirty years ago, are just as importantnow as they were then. Hesays:— In the state of nature, all theinferior parts of the foot concur tosustain the weight of the body ;then we observe that the heels andfrog, the parts said to be most ex-posed, are never damaged by wear,that the wall or crust is alone wornon going on hard ground, and thatit is only this part which must beprotected, leaving the other partsfree and unfettered in their
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