Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ays it was employedby him many years before that veterinarians treatise waspublished. In shoeing a horse we should in this, as inevery other case, study to follow nature ; and certainly thatshoe which is made of such a form as to resemble as nearas possible the natural tread and shape of the foot, must be preferable to any other In order that we may imitate the natural tread of the foot, the shoe must bemade flat, if the height of the sole does not forbid it; itmust be of an equal thickness all around the outside ofthe r
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ays it was employedby him many years before that veterinarians treatise waspublished. In shoeing a horse we should in this, as inevery other case, study to follow nature ; and certainly thatshoe which is made of such a form as to resemble as nearas possible the natural tread and shape of the foot, must be preferable to any other In order that we may imitate the natural tread of the foot, the shoe must bemade flat, if the height of the sole does not forbid it; itmust be of an equal thickness all around the outside ofthe rim (for a draught-horse about half an inch thick,and less in proportion for a saddle-horse); and on that 512 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. part of it which is to be placed immediately next the foot,a narrow rim or margin is to be formed, not exceedingthe breadth of the crust upon which it is to rest, with thenail-holes placed exactly in the middle; and, from thisnarrow rim, the shoe is to be made gradually thinnertowards its inner edge (figs. 191, 192). The breadth of. fig. 191
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