Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . ears inrelation to the cause of this quarters giving out before the other,as nature evidently intended it to stand strain and wear equally withother parts. The cause, undoubtedly, is the interference in its mo-bility by bad-fitting shoes and nail-ing so far back as to interfere withthe flexibility of the quarter. Thisbeing true, it is evident that theprincipal nailing should be at thetoe and front, because there is morehorn there to nail to, and less liabil-ity to do harm by separating
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . ears inrelation to the cause of this quarters giving out before the other,as nature evidently intended it to stand strain and wear equally withother parts. The cause, undoubtedly, is the interference in its mo-bility by bad-fitting shoes and nail-ing so far back as to interfere withthe flexibility of the quarter. Thisbeing true, it is evident that theprincipal nailing should be at thetoe and front, because there is morehorn there to nail to, and less liabil-ity to do harm by separating andbreaking the fibers of the should not extend any fartherback into the quarters than is barelynecessary to give a safe hold of theshoe to the foot. The fewer andsmaller the nails driven, the better, providing they are sufficient tohold the shoe. But much will depend, in doing this, on the ac-curacy of the fitting, thickness of the wall, and weight of the shoe. If the nails are driven well back on the outer quarter, and onlyround in the toe of the inner side, for the purpose of affording more. Fig. 461.—Extreme Toeing In. SHOEING. 31 freedom to the quarters, it will be found that as the foot grows, theshoe will be carried to the outside quarter and toe to such an extentthat the inner heel of the shoe will be drawn inside of the wall at the © m ti
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