Practical Horseshoeing - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1872. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... It should be ever most strenuously insisted upon, that the whole lower face of the hoof, except the border of the -wall, must be left in a state of nature; the horn of the sole, frog, and bars, has an important duty to fulfill; it is the natural protection to this part of the hoof, and no protection of iron, leather, or other material is half so efficacious; in addition, it is a capital agent in sustaining weight, and in keeping the whole foot healthy and perfect in form. THE SHOE. The Ordinary Shoe.--The hoof having been prepared by the farrier, according to his fancy for the reception of the metal plate which is to garnish it, here again we find that ignorance prevails and is productive of inconvenience and injury. "Improved principles" demand that a particular-shaped shoe be applied; no matter whether the animal be for saddle, harness, or draught purposes, it must have a shoe that rests only on the margin of the hoof--on the wall. Therefore, except a narrow border to correspond with this margin, the upper or foot-face of the shoe is bevelled away, so as to leave a wide space between it and the sole, and throw all the weight and strain on the outer parts of the foot (Fig. 11); in addition to which disadvantage this space is admirably contrived to lodge stones, gravel, hardened mud, or snow, and in heavy ground it increases the suction immensely; But, as will be easily understood from the manner in which the undersurface of the foot has been treated, this bevelling is rendered an absolute necessity if the horse is to be preserved from immediate lameness. The sole has been pared so thin, that so far from its being able to withstand a tolerably large amount of pressure around its margin--particularly toward the toe--it must be most carefully preserved not only fr...

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