. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. led dis- PiG. 574.—Cross-section of the Same. credit on the English Veterinary School. * * * One change, among others introduced by Mr. Coleman, has entailed, I believe,a more lasting damage on the artfarriery than any of his many oth-er crochets, which have unfortu-nately become thoroughly parts ofEnglish horse-shoeing. He intro-duced the drawing-knife, andmade it supercede the buttress forpreparing the feet for buttress is the instrument still in use for paring down the wal


. The standard horse book, comprising the taming, controlling and education of unbroken and vicious horses. led dis- PiG. 574.—Cross-section of the Same. credit on the English Veterinary School. * * * One change, among others introduced by Mr. Coleman, has entailed, I believe,a more lasting damage on the artfarriery than any of his many oth-er crochets, which have unfortu-nately become thoroughly parts ofEnglish horse-shoeing. He intro-duced the drawing-knife, andmade it supercede the buttress forpreparing the feet for buttress is the instrument still in use for paring down the wall surface to receive the shoe everywhere except in England and parts of the NewWorld, to which English handsand language have carried ourmodes of shoeing, such as it hasbecome only within the presentcentury. Old men can remember thebuttresss being in general usethroughout Great Britain ; butthe way it was banished fromEnglish practice is known to few ;and its supercedence, and theseremarks on the effects of thechange, may astonish many. Thedrawing-knife, or searcher, as itwas called, a small, Fig. 575.—Side View, Showing Degree of Curve.


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