. 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). Fig. 496.âHinge shoe for cure of contraction. From a French work. Fig. 497.âForm of shoe devised for preventing contraction. From a French w
. 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). Fig. 496.âHinge shoe for cure of contraction. From a French work. Fig. 497.âForm of shoe devised for preventing contraction. From a French work. named Dunbar, whose metho'I consisted in cutting away the bars, opening the heels, and cutting out the sole almost to the quick, then fitting the shoes larger, and nailing back to the quarters. The principle was, that the removal of this horn which tied the heels together, enabled the quarters to spread and grow wider. While this seemed but a crude idea, it was, how- ever, so in many cases as to attract considerable attention, and proved an additional step toward the Fig. 498.âShoe used by the ^ 'â French for the cure of key of curmg contraction. contraction. The government save this man. * Passing through this part of the counti-y in 1866, I was persuaded by this man to have such a shoe put on one of my horses that was a little lame in one of his feet. I cautioned him not to nail the shoe on too firmly, or open it too vio- lently (which I could see was his intention to do), as it would be sure to cause seri- ous irritation in the foot. But disregarding my wishes, assuming that he knew just how to do it, and saying that it would be all right, he put it on in his own way. The result was as I had anticipated; the lameness that followed soon compelled me to take it Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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