. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 464.—Outside view of hoof. G50 SHOEING. maintained in all its parts. A reversed view of the same is shownby cut 465. The dotted lines show the point to which the hoofshould be shortened, and the relation of the internal parts to thewall and sole. The illustrations heretofore given of the hoof andinternal parts will give a good idea of the parts generally, andhow much should be removed. But shoers wishing to study thesubject more thoroughly, can easily do so by procuring a deadfoot and letting it remain in water until the parts can be sepa-r
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 464.—Outside view of hoof. G50 SHOEING. maintained in all its parts. A reversed view of the same is shownby cut 465. The dotted lines show the point to which the hoofshould be shortened, and the relation of the internal parts to thewall and sole. The illustrations heretofore given of the hoof andinternal parts will give a good idea of the parts generally, andhow much should be removed. But shoers wishing to study thesubject more thoroughly, can easily do so by procuring a deadfoot and letting it remain in water until the parts can be sepa-rated; or burying it in stable dung for a short time, when thehoof can be easily taken off, showing its exact thickness, and the. Fig. 465.—Reversed view of Fig. 464. Half size. Degree to which thebones are crowded up out of the foot. relation it has to the parts within. In any case of paring thefoot, the principle should be to reduce it from its deformity, what-ever it is, to its natural proportion and adjustment. If the frog-is hard and bony, it should be cut down so as to come within thelower edge of the shoe; for in such a case it would be like anyother hard, unyielding hody under the heel. But usually thefrog is small, and seldom requires any attention. The authoritieti most common on Shoeing are explicit indirecting that the sole should be well pared out—made, in fact,so thin that it V\rill spring to the pressure of the thumb. This isso injurious that I regard it necessary, though subjecting me toconsiderable expense and trouble, to give at the conclusion of thechapter such proofs as would convince of this, and would ask fora careful reading of them. SHOEING. 651 When a chip of horn cut from the foot f
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