Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . ving failed, it finallyoccurred to me to try the experiment of re-moving all pressure from the part, andturning the horse out to grass. But therewas another serious difficulty, to which,in part, some of the soreness might be at-tributed. By the contraction or curlingunder of the outer heel, it had become soweak that it could scarcely be made tosupport his weight in traveling, so I decidedto treat this at the same time. The divis-ion between the bar and frog of this sidewas well thinned
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . ving failed, it finallyoccurred to me to try the experiment of re-moving all pressure from the part, andturning the horse out to grass. But therewas another serious difficulty, to which,in part, some of the soreness might be at-tributed. By the contraction or curlingunder of the outer heel, it had become soweak that it could scarcely be made tosupport his weight in traveling, so I decidedto treat this at the same time. The divis-ion between the bar and frog of this sidewas well thinned out to make the quarterflexible. Next a thin shoe of untemperedsteel, a little more than an eighth of aninch thick, was made to fit accurately tothe wall (as shown by Fig. 588), the endbeing turned up for a clip, and fittednicely to its place. The part of the op-posite heel of the shoe coming over the corn, was entirely cut away, leaving simply sufficient to cover the wall, which at this point was very thin. The shoe was now fastened on sufficiently to hold it firmly in place, but with very small Fig. 545.—Form of Concave Shoe Used by the French for Expanding the Quarters. SHOEING. 59 There was no rasping or attempt to beautify the foot in any 586 and 589 give a very good idea of the appearance of the foot before and after the shoe wasput on. The quarter was now care-fully opened about three eighths of
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