Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . for Cur-ing Corns. From Coleman. of the hoof would most certainly split. SHOEING. 75 He continues by saying,— From the good that was found to arise from putting shoes on horses whichhave naturally weak feet from being brought up on wet land, the custom of puttingshoes on all kinds of feet became general in some countries. Our ancestors, the original shoers, proposed nothingmore, I dare say, in their first ef-forts, than to preserve the crustfrom breaking way, and thoughtthemselves happy
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . for Cur-ing Corns. From Coleman. of the hoof would most certainly split. SHOEING. 75 He continues by saying,— From the good that was found to arise from putting shoes on horses whichhave naturally weak feet from being brought up on wet land, the custom of puttingshoes on all kinds of feet became general in some countries. Our ancestors, the original shoers, proposed nothingmore, I dare say, in their first ef-forts, than to preserve the crustfrom breaking way, and thoughtthemselves happy that they hadskill enough so to do. The mod-erns also are wisely content withthis in the racing way. In process of time the fertilityof invention and the vanity of man-kind have produced a variety ofmethods ; almost all of which areproductive of lameness ; and I amthoroughly convinced from obser-vation and experience, that nine-teen lame horses out of every twentyare lame of the artist, which is ow-ing to the form of the shoe, his ig-norance of the design of nature,and maltreatment of the foot, every. Fig. 588.—Posilion of the Spreaders forOpening the Quarter. part of which is made for some purpose or other, though he does not know it. I suppose it will be universally assented to, that whatever method of shoeingapproaches nearest to the law of na-ture, such is likely to be the most perfectmethod.* * * The superfices of the foot aroundthe outside, now made plane and smooth,the shoe is to be made quite flat, of anequal thickness all around the outside,and open and most narrow backward atthe extremities of the heels ; for the gen-erality of horses, those whose frogs arediseased, either from natural or inciden-tal causes, require the shoe to be widerbackwards ; and to prevent this flat shoefrom pressing on the sole of the horse,the outer part thereof is to be madethickest, and the inside gradually thin-ner. In such a shoe the frog is permit-ted to touch the ground, the necessi
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