Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . FiGS. 520, 521.—How a Horse Stands when Sore-footed or Lame. rection it is desired to give them freedom outward, it only facilitatesit, while at the same time it gives a certainty and positiveness of re-lief that cannot well be secured in any other way. In fact, herein lies most of the success in the management of allconditions of contraction. In my experience I never have found asmith who could catch the points of properly preparing the foot andfitting the shoes for such cases. In ever
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . FiGS. 520, 521.—How a Horse Stands when Sore-footed or Lame. rection it is desired to give them freedom outward, it only facilitatesit, while at the same time it gives a certainty and positiveness of re-lief that cannot well be secured in any other way. In fact, herein lies most of the success in the management of allconditions of contraction. In my experience I never have found asmith who could catch the points of properly preparing the foot andfitting the shoes for such cases. In every instance I have beencompelled .to stand over the shoer and dictate every movement ordo part of the work myself First, the want of judgment in prepar-ing the foot ; second, in adapting the weight of the shoe to the foot,and fitting the clips so as to enable opening the quarters easily as desired. Mr. Roberges Method. Since writing the foregoing my attention has been called to a 50 Fui. 522—Anterior Section of a Hind Hoo} Made Vertically across the Center, Showing the Thickness of Wall. very simple and practical method of opening the quarters for thecure of contraction, which is used with marked success, and illus-trated in Fig. 566, devised by Mr. David Roberge, a practical horse-shoer of great ingenuityand skill, located at West ThirtiethStreet, New York methods of open-ing the heels on this planare given, which are fromFrench and other author-ities, to show the great ef-fort that has been madeby mechanical means toovercome this Mr. Roberge, by giv-ing more length to thespring, and simplifying itsconstruction, makes it allthat can be desired. Thespring is made of steel, the exact proportion and adjustment ofwhich is shown in Fig. 567. The wall is first weakened by sawingdown slightly between the heel and frog, when the spring is placed in position with so much forcegiven to it as may be thoughtnecessary to press the
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