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 . ir own customs is very well known; still when these customsare strikingly injudicious, and totally abstracted from all religiousprejudices, perseverence degenerates into obstinacy, and simplicity into Ignorance. So it is with the Mahrattas in abidina- by their present p
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 . ir own customs is very well known; still when these customsare strikingly injudicious, and totally abstracted from all religiousprejudices, perseverence degenerates into obstinacy, and simplicity into Ignorance. So it is with the Mahrattas in abidina- by their present practice of cutting the hoof and shoeing horses;they cut away the hinder part of the hoof in such a manner thatthe pastern almost touches the ground, and the frog is suffered togrow so that the hoof is nearly a circle, in which form the shoos arcmade, the hinder parts almost touching, and so thin that a personof ordinary strength can easily twist them. Instead of making theback part of tke shoe thickest, they hammer it quite thin, makingthe fore part thickest, and the shoe, gradually becoming thinner,ends in an edge. This mode of shoeing in a country where, from the nature ofthe climate, the horses feet probably are very strong, did not strikeme to be quite so injudicious as the author above mentioned repre- 724 Fig. 568.—Lafosses method of letting the iron into the hoof. sents it. I determined, therefore, to try on this particular horse ashoe in some respects similar to those described, that I might seewhether it would alter the shape of his foot ; since it is said to make the frog grow so that the hoof is nearly a circle, which was the veryeffect that in this case I wished to produce. I therefore ordered mysmith to make a shoe at my own forge in the form 1 generally use(which will be hereafter described), with the following exceptions :The web of it was to almost cover the sole, room being given toadmit a picker ; and as it proceeded to the heels, the web on eachsi
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