The Illustrated Horse Management: Containing Descriptive Remarks Upon Anatomy, Medicine, Shoeing, Teeth, Food, Vices, Stables; Likewise a Plain Account of the Situation, Nature, and Value of the Various Points, Together with Comments on Grooms, Dealers, Breeders, Breakers, and Trainers, Also on Carriage and Harness. Embellished with More Than 400 Engravings, from Original Designs Made Expressly for this Work

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J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1865 - 532 sider
 

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Side 132 - The mode of administering it, and minor operations. SHOEING. — Its origin, its uses, and its varieties. THE TEETH. — Their natural growth, and the abuses to which they are liable. FOOD. — The fittest time for feeding, and the kind of food which the horse naturally consumes. The evils which are occasioned by modern stables. The faults inseparable from stables. The so.called " incapacitating vices," which are the results of injury or of disease.
Side 251 - many more pieces of iron curved, hollowed, raised, and indented than I have cared to enumerate. All, however, have failed to restore health to the hoof. Some by enforcing a change of position may for a time appear to mitigate the evil ; but none can in the long run cure the disorder under which the hoof evidently suffers.

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