. 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). 670 SHOEING. sion, used for this pui-pose during the past one hundred years. We see first not only a hinge shoe, but a combination of hinges
. 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). 670 SHOEING. sion, used for this pui-pose during the past one hundred years. We see first not only a hinge shoe, but a combination of hinges. Next, shoes with clips, by which to spread the heels. The shoes, after being fastened on, were spread by screws and other means, some of which were quite ingenious in their construction, but not of sufficient importance to give them a place here. In 1802 Prof. Coleman introduced and patented a convex shoe. See Fig. 502. Goodwin soon after introduced a combination of this form of shoe with that of the French system of rounding or. Fig. 401. Fig. 493. How a horse stands when sore-footed. turning up the toe. Bracy Clark, in 1809, devised a shoe with a hinge at the toe, with a steel rivet to protect the joint from wear- ing, so that the quarters could have freedom to expand. See Fig. 503. I find also that this form of shoe was devised as long ago as the 16th century, by Ceasar Fiaschi, specimens of which are given in another part of this chapter. He also gave the "bar," and other shoes. But the most recent modification of this form of which the writer has any account, was made by a man in New Hampshire in 1875. He had a shoe jointed at the toe, with wide bar at the heel, so fitted that one edge overlapped the other at the center. See Fig. 501. The bars were made of malleable iron, about three-eighths of an inch thick, with slight calks at the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readabilit
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