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Title: The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hunting, William, 1846-1913
Subjects: Horses Horseshoeing
Publisher: New York : W.R. Jenkins
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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tutions thatbaffle all attempts at getting hard condition. The samething is seen in cab and omnibus stock. All the newhorses cut their legs for a few weeks. The old ones^with a few exceptions, work in any form of shoe, butnever touch their joints. They cut when they areout of condition—when their limbs soon tire; but theynever cut when they are in condition—when theyhave firm control of the action of their limbs. There are. 104 THE ART OP HORSE-SHOEING. however, a few liorses that are always a source of trouble,and there are conditions of shoeing which assist or pre-vent the injury. The hind legs are the most frequentlyaffected, and this because of the calkins. Many horseswill cease cutting at once if the calkins of the shoesbe removed and a level shoe adopted. There are certainforms of shoe which are supposed to be specially suitableas preventives. A great favorite is the knocked-upshoe, i. e., a shoe with no nails on the inside, except atthe toe, and a skate-shaped inner branch.
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Fig. 75.— Knocked-up Shoes—with and without an inner Calkin. These shoes are fitted not only close to the innerborder of the wall, but within it, and the horn at the toeis then rasped off level with the shoe. Whether they areof any use is a question, but there is no question of theharm they do to the foot. Some farriers are partial to athree-quarter shoe—one from which a couple of inches ofthe inside heel has been removed. Some tliicken the out-side toe, some the inside toe. Some raise one heel, somethe other, and some profess to have a principle of fittingthe shoe based upon the formation of the horses limband the peculiarity of his action. If in practice successattended these methods, I should advise their adoption,but my experience is that numerous farriers obtain aspecial name for shoeing horses that cut, when their INJURIES frOxM: shoeing. 105 methods, applied to quite similar cases, are as antagonis-tic as the poles. A light shoe without calkins has at anyrate negative pro

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