Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . nd-crack, or Fissure in Front cf Hoof. A deep substance of 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 this feet. He boldly proclaimed thatall this was injurious, andtried to prove it by the mostconvincing arguments. Theprinciples of treatment,though
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . nd-crack, or Fissure in Front cf Hoof. A deep substance of 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 this 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 parts free and unfettered in their natural ^ig. 593.—Flat, Weak Sole, SHOEING. 77
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