. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . kill was exhibited in theamount of cutting and rasping done on the feet. He boldly proclaimed that all this was injurious, and tried toprove it by the most convincing arguments. The principles oftreatment, though given a hundred and thirty years ago, are justas important now as they were then. He says:— In the state of nature, all the inferior parts of the foot concurto sustain the weight of the body; then we observe that the heelsand frogs, the parts said to be most exposed, are never damagedby wear, that the wall or crust is alone worn on goin
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . kill was exhibited in theamount of cutting and rasping done on the feet. He boldly proclaimed that all this was injurious, and tried toprove it by the most convincing arguments. The principles oftreatment, though given a hundred and thirty years ago, are justas important now as they were then. He says:— In the state of nature, all the inferior parts of the foot concurto sustain the weight of the body; then we observe that the heelsand frogs, the parts said to be most exposed, are never damagedby wear, that the wall or crust is alone worn on going on hardground, and that it is only this part which must be protected, leav-ing the other parts free and unfettered in their natural move-ments. In advising tips or thin-heeled shoes, he says:— Thin tips extending back to the middle of the quarters, al-lowing the heels to bear upon the ground, and the weight to be sus-tained behind and before, but j)articularly in the latter, because theweight of the body falls heaviest there. SHOEING. 721. Fig. 564.—Thin shoe devised andused by Lafosse. The shorter the shoe is, the less the horse sHps, and the froghas the same influence in preventing- this that an old hat placed un-der our own shoes would have in protecting us from slipping onthe ice.* * * It is necessary, nevertheless, that hoofs which have weak wallsshould be a little longer shod, so that the gradually thinningbranches reach to the heels, though notresting upon them. For horses whichhave convex soles, these long shoesshould also be used, and the toes shouldbe more covered to prevent the soletouching the ground. This is the onlytrue method of preserving the foot andrestoring it. A horse which has itsfeet weak and sensitive, ought to beshod as short as possible, and with thinbranches, so that the frog comes incontact with the ground; because theheels, having nothing between them,are benefited and relieved. See Crescent shoes are all the moreneedful for a horse
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