The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ^ in the feet ofhorses that are exposed to much strain by being speeded, I willinclude the following explanations to show the impropriety anddanger of doing so. It is stated in the chapter on shoeing, wherethin shoes or tips are recommended, that this change must bebrou
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . ^ in the feet ofhorses that are exposed to much strain by being speeded, I willinclude the following explanations to show the impropriety anddanger of doing so. It is stated in the chapter on shoeing, wherethin shoes or tips are recommended, that this change must bebrought about gradually. When traveling through Vermont, anintelligent trainer, who was a member of my class, wished toknow the best method of keeping the feet of horses sound and freefrom contraction:— Keep the adjustment and condition of the feet as nearlynatural as possible, I answered, by using thin steel shoes thatwill give the frog natural contact with the Fig. 693.—Tendons and ligaments of the foot. 788 DISEASES AND THEIE TEEATMENT. That is my idea, said he, but while in New York City, aman came along and persuaded the president of one of the horsei-ailroad companies, where I was at the time employed, to put thin-heeled shoes on all his horses. I replied, That would be allright, and an advantage for theaverage of horses; but therewoidd be found an occasionalone, perhaps one in every tenor twelve of them, that wouldgrow decidedly lame by suchshoeing; for if there was theleast inflammation or weaknessin the navicular joint or sur-rounding parts, giving such sud-den and violent contact of thefrog upon hard-paved streetswould aggravate the irritationand produce direct the heels of suchhorses should be kept somewhatraised until the irritation passedofl, when the heels might begradually lowered sufiiciently tobring about a good condition ofcirculation. He stated in reply that aboutthat proportion of the horsesdid become
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