. The horse's foot and how to keep it sound. Tig. 1—Shows the ground surface of the hoof prepared for receiving ashoe ; and marks very distinctly the difference between the curvatureof the outer and inner quarters. o The toe—^rasped away to receive the tumed-up shoe. a 1. The inner toe. a 2. Tlie outer toe. b 1. The inner quarter. h 2. The outer quarter. c 1. The inner heel. c 2. The outer heel. d d d. The sole. c e. The crust or wall of the hoot //. The bars. g g. The commissures. hkl The frog. h. The part immediately under the navicular joint* k. The oval cleft of the frogr. I. The elevated
. The horse's foot and how to keep it sound. Tig. 1—Shows the ground surface of the hoof prepared for receiving ashoe ; and marks very distinctly the difference between the curvatureof the outer and inner quarters. o The toe—^rasped away to receive the tumed-up shoe. a 1. The inner toe. a 2. Tlie outer toe. b 1. The inner quarter. h 2. The outer quarter. c 1. The inner heel. c 2. The outer heel. d d d. The sole. c e. The crust or wall of the hoot //. The bars. g g. The commissures. hkl The frog. h. The part immediately under the navicular joint* k. The oval cleft of the frogr. I. The elevated boundary of the cleft. t i. The bulbs of the heels. \ 46 THE HORSE S FOOT, Fig Fig. 2—Shows the outer side of the same foot with a shoe attached:—Italso partially shows the interior of the hoof, which is more fully repre-sented in Figs. 21, 22, and 23. a. The toe of the shoe turned up out of the line of wear. h h. The shoe repiesented of the same thickness from toe to heel. c. The clinches. d. The hollow for receiving the coronary substance, which secret«i the horn.«u The Uiin hofsy plates that line the wall of the Yktxtt AND HOW TO KEEP IT SOUND. 49 FIGURES III., IV., AND VI. Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6, represent the detached bones of thefoot, and also a section of the foot, exhibiting at one viewthe relative position of all its parts in the way of a map :the f(rmer I drew from the bones of the foot represented inFigs. 1 and 2,—and the latter from the foot of a youngthorough-bred horse, rising four years old, in which shoeingand stabling had not had time to produce any material nhanges. Fig. 3.
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