The art of taming and educating the horse .. by Magner Dennis

Author:Magner, Dennis. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses, Horses
Publisher: Battle Creek, Mich., Review and Herald publishing house
Published: 1884-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

age which has been removed. Drawn from Manikin.

SHOEING.

Such are, in their entirety, the complex functions of which the foot of the horse is the seat.

As an organ of support, the foot has an essential duty, smce it is through it that the entire machine is put in connection with

the ground, while the point at which it is placed is in fact the fulcrum of the levers—the limbs-on which all the locomotive agencies work.

As an organ of elasticity, its duty is no less important when it is considered what enormous forces, the result of the weight of the animal combined with its powerful muscular contractions, all bear

on that apparatus, and that it is the means of neutralizing the concussions which, without it, would be fatal to the entire mechanism, and particularly so to the limbs. The elastic apparatus furnished by the foot of the horse is very complex, for the greater part of the elements of which it is made up are conducive to this purpose.

A. The three phalanges obliquely inclined on the metacarpals or metatarsals, and sustained behind by the ligamentary and ten-donous apparatus which has been mentioned, constitute an admirable means of neutralizing the weight of the body. At each step it is seen to yield and spring back like a bow that is bent and re-

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