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. 556.—^Form of shoe with toesimply rounded. SHOEING. 711 Rubber Shoe.) A common method practiced by many shoers isto spring or bend the shoe off from the heels, with the belief taaoit must relieve them. (See Fig. 558.)This is objectionable, because it transfersthe b
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. 556.—^Form of shoe with toesimply rounded. SHOEING. 711 Rubber Shoe.) A common method practiced by many shoers isto spring or bend the shoe off from the heels, with the belief taaoit must relieve them. (See Fig. 558.)This is objectionable, because it transfersthe bearing from the natural position ofthe heels to parts least capable of receiv-ing it, multiplied with such leverage uponthe wall where the shoe is bent off, as tocause severe pain. It also soon breaksdown the quarters so as to work upon theshoe, thereby becoming an additionalsource of weakness and Fig. 557.—Shoe adapted fora stiff joint.
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