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. 560.—Shoe for weak sole, orfoundered foet. 714 SHOEING. moval of the solo between the bars and the crust. In commonpractice these parts of the hoof are removed by an instrumentcalled the buttress. The removal of a proper quantity of horny sole has beenrepresented t
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. 560.—Shoe for weak sole, orfoundered foet. 714 SHOEING. moval of the solo between the bars and the crust. In commonpractice these parts of the hoof are removed by an instrumentcalled the buttress. The removal of a proper quantity of horny sole has beenrepresented to be a delicate operation, and in the hands of commonsmiths liable to do mischief. But any smith capable of paring ahoof cannot fail to be equal to removing part of the sole with the draw-ing-knife. That the practice may be faithfully executed in the army, a farrier from eachregiment of cavalry hasbeen pei-mitted to attendthe college to learn thel^ractical part of foregoing pas-sages, abounding as theydo in errors, give evidenceof the manner in whichsome of the greatestchanges in the practice ofhorse shoeing have occur-red since its historj^ has been written, and changes. Fig. 561.—Side view of the previous shoe. which have led to theworst possible , however, the notiongot possession of theminds of the men at the wheel, that the bottom of the foot, its arched sole, was not designedto support the weight, but to jneld to pressure downward ; every-thing had to give way to that idea. The sole and frog were tornaway, and because, during the barbarous experiment, the connectiondid not yield, and the bone protrude as a finger through a tornglove, negative evidence was taken in confirmation of the theoryframed ; the paring away of horses soles with the drawing-knifewas thus established, and the army, by sending farriers to learnthe new system, became the means of enforcing the absurd andcruel practice of thinning the sole throughout this kingdom andthe colon
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