. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). SHOEING. 635 We observe also that the excessive wear is always at the toe, tod that the heels rarely suffer even on bad roads. Consequently
. The art of taming and educating the horse : a system that makes easy and practical the subjection of wild and vicious horses ... : the simplest, most humane and effective in the world : 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 .... Horses; Horses; Horses; CHR 1887; PRO Smith, James Somers, Jr. (donor). SHOEING. 635 We observe also that the excessive wear is always at the toe, tod that the heels rarely suffer even on bad roads. Consequently the best shoeing for the feet, for all roads and seasons, when in a good condition of health, must be such as will pei-mit them to be as nearly barefoot as passible, or at least that the posterior part is so, yet sustaining all the attrition of wear to which they may be subjected. This being true, the object, then, of shoeing should be to prevent excessive wear, give power, and prevent slipping, which necessitates the following conditions: First, the preparation. Fill. 436.—Side view of a properly proportioned shoe. of the foot; second, the weight, form, and fitting of the shoe; and third, nailing to the foot. First, in preparing the foot for the shoe, the aim should be to cut away so much of the wall as would be a surplus of growth, or so much only as would bring it back to its natural form and adjustment. Second, the shoe should be m form, so that when on, the ad- justment of the foot, or its power to obtain hold or upon the ground, will be as nearly as possible what it was before being shod, and yet sustain the wear for the time it is intended to be on. Third, it should be nailed on firmly, yet so as to break or weaken the wall of the hoof as little as possible, and not interfere with the freedom of the quarters, or enlargement of the foot as it grows. Pedestrians who are compelled to study carefully the fitting. Please note that these images are extracted from scan
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