A plain treatise on horse-shoeing : with illustrations by Miles William of Exeter & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU

Author:Miles, William, of Exeter & Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horseshoeing, Horses, CHR 1856
Publisher: Philadelphia : Henry Carey Baird
Published: 1856-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

CUTTING.

Horses strike their feet against the opposite leg in such a variety of ways, both before and behind, that it is impossible to form a shoe that would suit every case of "cutting." I therefore advise you, whether the horse cuts before or behind, to fasten something like a boot covered thickly with wetted pipeclay over the place where he strikes tlie leg, and then trot him along the road; he will soon pick off some of the pipeclay with the opposite foot, and show you the exact part of the shoe he strikes with, which you can easily alter in the new shoe; and you will often be surjDrised to see how small a matter causes the mischief.

REMOVING.

The time at which a horse's shoes should be removed must depend very much upon circumstances. If a horse wears his shoes out in less than a month they had better not be removed; and horses

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