The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . aring on a shoe except at theextreme point where they meet the wall. Thisextreme point of the bearing surfece of a footis very often injured. What is called openingthe heels is a favourite operation with somemen. It consists in cuttina; away a wedoe-shaped piece of horn from each side of thefrog and from the point of the wall. It isalt02:ether evil in its effects, for whilst crivino;a delusive appearance of width to the heels,it robs the foot of some bearing surface andfavours contract
The Horse : its treatment in health and disease, with a complete guide to breeding, training and management . aring on a shoe except at theextreme point where they meet the wall. Thisextreme point of the bearing surfece of a footis very often injured. What is called openingthe heels is a favourite operation with somemen. It consists in cuttina; away a wedoe-shaped piece of horn from each side of thefrog and from the point of the wall. It isalt02:ether evil in its effects, for whilst crivino;a delusive appearance of width to the heels,it robs the foot of some bearing surface andfavours contraction. To repeat shortly the rules for preparinga foot:—With a rasp form a level bearingsurface for the shoe from heel to toe; keep both sides of the hoof of thesame height; see that the length of the toe and the height of the heelsare proportionate; let the frog and bars alone; remove from the soleonly such portions as are loose or may receive undue pressure from alevel shoe; finally run the rasp lightly round the circumference of thehoof, so that no sharp edge be left which is useless to support weight. Fig. 632.—A Pared-oiit Sole and might be broken. SHOES Probably the earliest shoes fixed by nails to a horses foot were thiniron plates, similar to those now used by Arabs and Turks. The nailswere flatdieaded, and so soon as the head wore off, the shoe would beloose. On grass land or soft roads this arrangement would afford a fairamount of protection, and the shoe would last a long time by merelyrefixing it with fresh nails. One of the first improvements would beto increase the thickness of the shoe, and to form the head of the nailso that it might be countersunk into the iron of the .shoe and thus afibrdlonger wear. The great essential in all shoes is that they shall protect the hoof fromwear and do no harm to the horse. They should be of sufficient substanceto wear three or four weeks, and they should afibrd a good secure footholdon the surfaces over which a horse travels.
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