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 . Fig. 430. Fig. 421. Fig. 422. Sections of lioof, the first two showing an outline of thewall at the points marked, with an estimate of the amountusually cut away in rasping and fitting the foot to theshoe. Also showing the liability to drive the nails sodeep in such cas
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 . Fig. 430. Fig. 421. Fig. 422. Sections of lioof, the first two showing an outline of thewall at the points marked, with an estimate of the amountusually cut away in rasping and fitting the foot to theshoe. Also showing the liability to drive the nails sodeep in such cases as to be bent into the quick whenclinched. The third shows the size of nails and the depththey should be driven, in proper proportion to prevent in-jury to the foot. SHOEING. 627 Not five horses in a hundred, shod a few years by the systemin general use, have sound, healthy feet. Contraction and itsconsequences, — corns,quarter-cracks, thick-eninsf of lateral car-tilasres, inflammationand ulceration of thenavicular bone andcoffin joint, with otherchanges of structurethat* make the horseliable to soreness or in-curable lameness, arethe rule ; while horseshaving sound, healthyfeet, are the excep-tions. The loss to thepeople of the countryfrom this cause—ig-norant, bad shoeing—is enormous, and could,except in some
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