The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . d the shoe be too straight or narrowfor the foot across the points of nailing, to drive the nails so deeplyas to not only endanger pricking, but to greatly weaken the wall. The excessive rasping not only destroys the strongest part ofthe wall, that best able to retain t
The art of taming and educating the horse : 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, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . d the shoe be too straight or narrowfor the foot across the points of nailing, to drive the nails so deeplyas to not only endanger pricking, but to greatly weaken the wall. The excessive rasping not only destroys the strongest part ofthe wall, that best able to retain the nail-holes and support con-cussion, but causes a seiious internal disease not usually under-stood, which shows its effect in an absorption of the coffin boneand other parts beneath. Fig. 486 is a good illustration of this. 666 SHOEING. The specimen from which it i;s drawn, was obtained from Dr. Hamill. The small sketch is full size, and shows the exact appear-ance of its surface, andsmall points of horn whichare over a ({uarter of aninch long, extending outlike pegs. It is needless to add thatthis is the result of the mostinexcusable ignorance, andthe cause of much there is much wall ex-tending out over the shoe,it should not be deformedby cutting down to it; theedge should simply berounded off and let Fig. 486.—Showing effects of excessive rasping. Shoeing the Hind Feet. There is usually so little trouble with the hind feet, that it isscarcely necessary to give any directions as to their horn is thickest at the quarters, and the principal nailingshouki be done there. Sometimes there is a curling under or con-tracting of the heels, which may be the cause of more or lessinflammation, extending to the sheaths of tendons and other partsof the leg ; in such a case, if thought advisable, either or bothquarters can be treated as explained under that head. I think it advisable, in this connection, to say a few wordsabout pricking, which is more comm
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