. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 503.—Bracy Clarks hinge shoe. The main point was to get all the money they could, and get out. Contraction is induced by six different causes, all acting more or less upon each other to aggravate the difficulty : 1. Trimming 676 SHOEING. the frog and sole so as to cause them to lose their moisture. 2. The thickness of the shoe, greatly increased by high calks, which removes the frog and sole fromall contact with the ground,and prevents them from ob-taining moisture from it.*3. Bad fitting of the shoes, bywhich means the bearing sur-face of
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 503.—Bracy Clarks hinge shoe. The main point was to get all the money they could, and get out. Contraction is induced by six different causes, all acting more or less upon each other to aggravate the difficulty : 1. Trimming 676 SHOEING. the frog and sole so as to cause them to lose their moisture. 2. The thickness of the shoe, greatly increased by high calks, which removes the frog and sole fromall contact with the ground,and prevents them from ob-taining moisture from it.*3. Bad fitting of the shoes, bywhich means the bearing sur-face of the heels is made toa greater or less degree con-cave, so that when weight isthrown upon the limb, theheels slide inward. 4. Nail-ing back in the quarters sothat as the feet grow, insteadof becoming wider as theywould if free, they are to thatdegree crowded together. the feet to becometoo dry; because the drierand harder they become, themore direct is the tendencyto become small. 6. If fromany cause inflammation is. Fig. 504.—Pony that cut his foot seriouslyby calking, causing so much inflamma-tion and pain that the foot washeld up, as represented, forseveral days. produced in the foot, it will in a short time perceptibly diminishin size. See Figs. 505, 506, showing theefiectof acute or chronicinflammation in causing severe and rapid contraction. The results of these causes, separately or combined, are suffi-cient to ruin even the best of feet in a short time. But all the ef-forts heretofore made for the cure of contraction seem to have beensimply to spread the heels open, which failed of making a cure onaccount of the crude way in which it was done, regardless ofbringing about a natural condition of circulation, whereby healthytissue could be grown. * I would remark here that keeping horses in stalls so narrow that they aregreatly restricted from moving more than a few feet, and with floor largely inclinedbackward, is not only so exceedingly hard on the feet as
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