. Hints to horse-keepers : a complete manual for horsemen ... And chapters on mules and ponies. the operation is frequently performed in an unskilful man-ner, and that their horses would be more serviceable, andwould perform their work with much greater comfort totbemselves, if their owners knew exactly how and whenthe shoeing should be done; and would insist on its beingdone at the right time, and in the right manner. There is hardly auy other class of mechanics who com-bine so much ignorance of the principles on which theirart is founded, with so much conceit of their knowledge,as do ordinar
. Hints to horse-keepers : a complete manual for horsemen ... And chapters on mules and ponies. the operation is frequently performed in an unskilful man-ner, and that their horses would be more serviceable, andwould perform their work with much greater comfort totbemselves, if their owners knew exactly how and whenthe shoeing should be done; and would insist on its beingdone at the right time, and in the right manner. There is hardly auy other class of mechanics who com-bine so much ignorance of the principles on which theirart is founded, with so much conceit of their knowledge,as do ordinary horse-shoers; and it should be one of thefirst duties of the horse owner to inform himself of theconstruction and nature of the horses foot, the reasons whyshoeing is necessary at all, what parts of the foot it pro-tects, what is the best form of shoe to effect the purpose,how it may be best fastened to the foot, and how often itshould be removed. [218] ANATOMY OF THE FOOT. 219 To illustrate these fundamental points, cuts are here in-troduced, showing the constrnctio!) of the horses Fig. tbe ground surface of the hoof prepared for receiving a shoe ; and marks verylistinctly the difference between the curvature of the outer and inner The toe—rasped away to receive the turned-up shoe, a 1. The inner toe. a 2. Theouter toe. b 1. The inner quarter, b 2. The outer quarter, c 1. The inner 2. The order heel, d d d. The sole, e e. The crust or wall of the hoof. //. The The commissures, hkl. The frog. {h. The part immediatelv under the navicular The oval cleft of The elevated boundary of the i. The bulbs of the heels. As the various parts of the horses foot cannot be betterdescribed for the purposes of this Avork than they havebeen by Mr. MDes (from whose manual the above cuts aretransferred), extracts are here made from his description : The hoof is divided into horny crust or wall, sole, and frog. The horny crus
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