. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 420. Fig. 421. Fig. 422. Sections of hoof, the first two showing an outline of thewall at the points marked, Avith an estimate of the amountusually cut away in rasping and Jfitting the foot to thes]$^e. Also showing the liability to drive the nails sodeep in such cases as to be bent into the quick whenclinched. The third shows the size of nails and the depththey should be driven, inproper proportion to prevent in-jury to the foot. SHOEING-. 627 Not five horses in a hundred, shod a few years by the systemin general use, have sound, healthy f
. The art of taming and educating the horse .. . Fig. 420. Fig. 421. Fig. 422. Sections of hoof, the first two showing an outline of thewall at the points marked, Avith an estimate of the amountusually cut away in rasping and Jfitting the foot to thes]$^e. Also showing the liability to drive the nails sodeep in such cases as to be bent into the quick whenclinched. The third shows the size of nails and the depththey should be driven, inproper proportion to prevent in-jury to the foot. SHOEING-. 627 Not five horses in a hundred, shod a few years by the systemin general use, have sound, healthy feet. Contraction and itsconsequences, —corns,quarter-cracks, thick-ening of lateral car-tilages, inflammationand ulceration of thenavicular bone andcoffin joint, with otherchanges of structurethat make the horseliable to soreness or in-curable lameness, arethe rule ; while horseshaving sound, healthyfeet, are the excep-tions. The loss to thepeople of the countryfrom this cause—ig-norant, bad shoeing—is enormous, aud could,except in some s
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