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. 546. -The same with plateremoved. 704. Pig. 5-i7.—Heel of shoe with padof oakum attached. be made to support the entire sole, if hammered out of iron, theincreased weight would make it seriously objectionable. The fit-ting of a thill piece of steel plate,
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. 546. -The same with plateremoved. 704. Pig. 5-i7.—Heel of shoe with padof oakum attached. be made to support the entire sole, if hammered out of iron, theincreased weight would make it seriously objectionable. The fit-ting of a thill piece of steel plate, asshown in Fio-. 545, would enable thisto be done with but little addition toits weight. The manner of putting-it on was simply by bringing thewhole surface of the wall and frog toan even bearing, to which the shoewas carefully adjusted. Next, the space between the shoeand bottom of the foot was filled withoakum, to which was added a littletar and resin, so as to form an evenbut firm support all the way round.*The drawing of the oakum, as itappears in Fig. 547, is an exactillustration of that which was used upon the shoe named, thoughonly the back part of it is shown. Parties who had used the shoeupon feet which had become soreand tender from driving upon hard,stony roads in the city and neigh-borhood, stated that it enabled thehorses to travel much better. Ifthe foot i
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