Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . , tips would or would notbe adapted. I give herewith the reply of each, and invite the attention of the reader to the points made, and the reasons given herefor. Prof Hamill says :— * * While I am a firm advocateof frog and sole pressure, and have drivenmy own horses for years over the pave-ments of Nev? York City with nothingon the feet but what is known as theEnglish tip or toe-piece shoe, which givesthe foot the entire freedom of all its nat-ural movements, yet I must say it wouldbe
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . , tips would or would notbe adapted. I give herewith the reply of each, and invite the attention of the reader to the points made, and the reasons given herefor. Prof Hamill says :— * * While I am a firm advocateof frog and sole pressure, and have drivenmy own horses for years over the pave-ments of Nev? York City with nothingon the feet but what is known as theEnglish tip or toe-piece shoe, which givesthe foot the entire freedom of all its nat-ural movements, yet I must say it wouldbe absurd to attempt to shoe every horsein this way. There are any number ofcases where this system would be in-jurious to the foot, and even to the as the foot, or rather that part of itinclosed within the hoof, is the objectoftenest under consideration, I shall ex-plain briefly how it may suffer fromextreme frog-pressure. (One point whichwe should always keep in view is a dueproportion, or equal distribution of theweight in ali parts of the hoof, and by noother system can the foot be healthy.). Fig. 441.—Colts Foot Four Years a Cast. SHOEING. 23
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