. 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). SHOEING. 627 Not five horses in a hundred, shod a few years by the system in general use, have sound, healthj' feet. Contraction and its con
. 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). SHOEING. 627 Not five horses in a hundred, shod a few years by the system in general use, have sound, healthj' feet. Contraction and its consequences, — corns, quarter-cracks, thick- ening of lateral car- tilages, inflammation and ulceration of the navicular bono and coffin joint, with other changes of structure that make the horse liable to soreness or in- curable lameness, are the rule ; while horses having sound, healthy feet, are the excep- tions. The loss to the people of the country from this cause—ig- norant, bad shoeing— is enormous, and FiQ. 433.—Foot of a flve-year-oltl horse that had never been ehod.* except in some serious cases, be entirely prevented or cured by good shoeing and proper treatment. This being true, it is of the greatest importance, not only as a matter of humanity to horses, but economy to owners, that such knowledge as will prevent or overcome these serious causes of in- jury and loss, be made available; and this, as explained, I have made a special effort to do in this chapter. It is idle to assume that shoeing-smiths would intentionally spoil or injure the feet; that they are not willing to learn or heed the teachings of reason. While there are a great many who are unpardonably stupid and ignorant, and who, in the blindness of their pi-ejudices, are not willing to learn; yet, as a class, the writer never found any peo- * Cuts Nos. 423 to 438 were copied from Bracy Clark's treatise on shoeing, published in 1809. No. 433 is an illustration of the foot of a five-year-old
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