The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . nd to which theshoe is fastened, is called the hoof. It is simply a thincovering of horn to the delicate but powerful mechanismof the internal structure of the foot, and for convenience ofdescription is divided into three parts, the wall, sole and frog. THE FOOT. There are other minor points, a full description of whichis not essential to our object here, such as the toe, heels,bars, commissures, etc. The outer crust, or wall, is a sim-ple piece of hor
The new system of educating horses, including instructions on feeding, watering, stabling, shoeing, etc with practical treatment for diseases . nd to which theshoe is fastened, is called the hoof. It is simply a thincovering of horn to the delicate but powerful mechanismof the internal structure of the foot, and for convenience ofdescription is divided into three parts, the wall, sole and frog. THE FOOT. There are other minor points, a full description of whichis not essential to our object here, such as the toe, heels,bars, commissures, etc. The outer crust, or wall, is a sim-ple piece of horn, of from a quarter to three-eighths of aninch in thickness, increasing in thickness from the quartersto the toe, where it is thickest and grows fastest, in order tobear the increased wear upon this part. If this horn werecut into and examined withp, microscope, it would be foundto be made up of a large number of little tubes, or hairs,cemented together; that they can be split apart like thefibers of wood, and that the horn increases in hardness anddensity from the inner surface to that of the outer, the inner 124 STRUCTURE OF THE
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