. The American farmer's horse book; a pictorial cyclopedia of facts concerning the prominent breeds ... Horses. OUTLINE OF THE HORSE S STRUCTURE. 167 and tissues, through which ramify a greater proportionate distribu- tion of little nerves and blood-vessels than can be found in an}^ other part of the body. We herewith present another view of the hoof. This is a portion of the horse's anatomy that cannot be too well understood; for, as we have said before, no horse can possibly be a good horse whose feet are not sound. a—The external crust seen at the quarter. b—The coronary ring. c—The little
. The American farmer's horse book; a pictorial cyclopedia of facts concerning the prominent breeds ... Horses. OUTLINE OF THE HORSE S STRUCTURE. 167 and tissues, through which ramify a greater proportionate distribu- tion of little nerves and blood-vessels than can be found in an}^ other part of the body. We herewith present another view of the hoof. This is a portion of the horse's anatomy that cannot be too well understood; for, as we have said before, no horse can possibly be a good horse whose feet are not sound. a—The external crust seen at the quarter. b—The coronary ring. c—The little horny plates lining the crust. d—The same continued over the bars. e e—The two concave surfaces of the inside of the horny frog. /—That which externally is the cleft of the frog. (J—The bars. h—The rounded part of the heels, belonging to the / b e INSIDE VIEW OF THE HOOF. There are two very important tendons (the flexors), extending from the back part of the knee down to the foot. They pass down together under the hollow of the heel. One, dividing into two parts, is in- serted into the wings of the coffin-bone above the heels; the other passes under the navicular or shuttle-bone, which rests on il, and im- mediately above the elastic frog it is attached to the under surface of the coffin-bone, about its middle. Hence any injury which the frog- may sustain, will be likely to involve both this lower tendon and the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Darling, Andrew. [from old catalog]. St. Louis, Mo. , Journal of agriculture co
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