. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . than long shoes. The great advantages oftips are two-fold—they are light, and they j)ermit thegreatest freedom of movement and action in the pos-terior part of the foot. In some cases of chronic footlameness the use of tips and regular work will effectsoundness when every other method of treatment hasfailed. The Charlier System is a method of shoeingwhich a few years ago took a very jjrominent hold on thefancy of horse-owners. Like every other system it hasadvantages and disadvantges—it has prejudiced enemiesand indiscreet friends. The princ
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . than long shoes. The great advantages oftips are two-fold—they are light, and they j)ermit thegreatest freedom of movement and action in the pos-terior part of the foot. In some cases of chronic footlameness the use of tips and regular work will effectsoundness when every other method of treatment hasfailed. The Charlier System is a method of shoeingwhich a few years ago took a very jjrominent hold on thefancy of horse-owners. Like every other system it hasadvantages and disadvantges—it has prejudiced enemiesand indiscreet friends. The principle or theory uponVV-hich it is based may be thus stated. The lower borderof the wall is, it is said, the chief sustaining structure ofthe hoof, and as all that is required of a shoe is to pre- -86 THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING. vent undue wear, therefore, remove a small strip of thelower border of the wall and substitute for it a similarsized strip of iron, and we shall protect from wear at thesame time that we leave entirely to nature every other. FiG. 62.—Groove for Charlier shoe formed by cutting away strip of wall. part of the hoof—sole, frog and bars. This seems emin-ently simple and logical, but it is easy to show that it ismore plausible than true. First, I would point out thatthe wall only is not the natural sustaining structure ofthe hoof; the wall and the sole at its connection with the wall , I deny that the Charlier system does leave entirelyto nature every other part of the hoof. In cutting away
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