The practical horseshoer Being a collection of articles on horseshoeing in all its branches which have appeared from time to time in the columns of "The Blacksmith and wheelwright" .. . Fig. 151—A Short Dock. some time for healing, and the lower end of the appendagewas sore till the part healed entirely. Now every particleof soreness ends with the cauterizing- of the part cut. Docking and pricking a horses tail makes the horse holdhis tail almost straight up in the air as shown in the ac-companying cut. Fig. 150. Docking a horse to conform tothe present fashion makes him hold the stub of his t
The practical horseshoer Being a collection of articles on horseshoeing in all its branches which have appeared from time to time in the columns of "The Blacksmith and wheelwright" .. . Fig. 151—A Short Dock. some time for healing, and the lower end of the appendagewas sore till the part healed entirely. Now every particleof soreness ends with the cauterizing- of the part cut. Docking and pricking a horses tail makes the horse holdhis tail almost straight up in the air as shown in the ac-companying cut. Fig. 150. Docking a horse to conform tothe present fashion makes him hold the stub of his tailalmost straight out from his body, and tliat in itself is notcruel, and can hardly come under the head of crime, inso-much as the hair in the tail is almost as long after the end T^HEi PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 245. bo a o oQ to M6 THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. of the tail is cut off as before the docking* is done. To makethe tail conform to the present fashion, the hair must be cutoff up to within a foot or so of the root; and then again, thispractice is hardly any more cruel than the simple banging-of a horses tail, without docking, and banging is an every-day occurrence. The pricking- is done after the docking isfinished. A pricking blade (a cut of wiiich is shown here-with, Fig. 149), is run into the horses tail at one side andthen the other in two or three parts. Then the ^* prickerdraws the knife towards the outer end of the tail, cutting-
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