Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 474.—Adjustment between Heel and Turn of Fig. 475.—Adjustment at Turn of Foot. SHOEING. 35 shoe, clown to it. Or, should the shoe be too straight or narrow forthe foot across the points of nailing, to drive the nails so deeply as not only to endangerpricking, but greatly toweaken the wall. The excessive rasp-ing not only destroysthe strongest part ofthe wall, that best ableto retain the nail-holesand support concus-sion, but causes a se-rious internal diseasenot usually unde
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . Fig. 474.—Adjustment between Heel and Turn of Fig. 475.—Adjustment at Turn of Foot. SHOEING. 35 shoe, clown to it. Or, should the shoe be too straight or narrow forthe foot across the points of nailing, to drive the nails so deeply as not only to endangerpricking, but greatly toweaken the wall. The excessive rasp-ing not only destroysthe strongest part ofthe wall, that best ableto retain the nail-holesand support concus-sion, but causes a se-rious internal diseasenot usually understood,which shows its effectin an absorption of theFig. 523 is a good illustration of this. The speci-men from which it is drawn was obtained from Dr. Hamill. Thesmall sketch is full size, and shows the exact appearance of its sur-face, and small points of horn which are over a quarter of an inch long, extending out like pegs. Shoeing the Hind is usually so little
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