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. -Location of nail-iKuo ni :iuordinarv flat shoo. than upon, the use ofany special means. The but-tress, in the hands of a nmnAvho knows how to use it-, can-not reasonably be objected to,next to which a good sharprasp is advisable. The wallshould be reduced to


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. -Location of nail-iKuo ni :iuordinarv flat shoo. than upon, the use ofany special means. The but-tress, in the hands of a nmnAvho knows how to use it-, can-not reasonably be objected to,next to which a good sharprasp is advisable. The wallshould be reduced to nearly or(j[uite on a level with the outermargin of the sole, providingthe sole has not been cut awaytoo much. As a rule, the lesstaken away fiom the foot thebetter, except for special rea-sons, which will be explainedhereafter. The bearing sur-face of the entire wall shouldbe made level, so tliat an even bearing surface of the shoe will restupon it fully. The rasp should now be passed around the toe, to. Fir, 460.—An ordinary flat- shoenailed on. 648 SHOKI^^O. cut away the sharp edges and bring- it to the size required. Prac-tically, this should be little more than rounding off the sharpedges of horn to prevent splitting. The principle is the same of leveling and prepaiing the feet ofhorses that have previously been shod. In such cases, to take off the shoe the best method is, after theclenches are cut off, to raise bothheels slightly with the pincers, thenpry forward and across the foot a lit-tle, when the nails can l)e pulled outone by one. It is seriously obj ection-able, as generally done, to pull off theshoe by force, as the severe wrench-ing endangers tearing the hoof andstraining and injuring the foot. ThisM^ould be especially objectionable ifthe hoof be thin and the horse sensi-tive. Next, any stubs or nails shouldbe removed. While it is simply intended to paredown the wall to its natural form, ifit is thin and weak, growing but lit-tle, especially at the heels, whe


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