Weekly Chemawa American., May 15, 1903, Page 8, Image 8

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
fiorse Shoeing
By H. E. Maun.
The horse when running wild npeds no
shoes, the wear and tear thar the feet are
subjected to while hunting fr his fcod
OTer the hills and meadows is just right t
keep his hoofs wore down to a normal con
dition, but when the horse ia in bondage
and must serve as a burden carrier, travel
ing on hard roads, it must be shod to repre
sent foot wear that nature cannot recuper
ate. Horse shoes were first made of iron
in 480 A. D. Before that time and even
after, horse shoes have been made of wood
and leather.
It is necessary in order to become a suc
cessful horse shoer to know something
aoout the construction of thy feet and legs
of a horse. Any boy could learn the names
of the bones and tendons in a horse's foot
in a day, but that would not make a horae
shoer out of bim; he must have a great dnal
of experience and practice. What the
horseshoer should know is the different
parts of the foot connected with the hoof,
an his work is confined solely to fhe foot,
so I will only give a9 few of the names of
the foot as is esseutial to know. The wall
or crust is what we call the hoof and it is
through this crust the nail is driven and it
is upon this crust the shoe rest. The front
is deepest, towards the heel it becomes
thinner, and is of equal thickness from top
to bottom, the growth of the wall being
different at different ages. It grows faster
in a young horse than in an old hors, in a
hearty, soft foot than in a diseased foot and
hard. With a young horse the hoof
will grow about three inches and even
more, while it grows less in an old horse.
The wall is fibrous, the fibers going parallel
to each other from the coronet to the
ground.
The sole or the bottom of the foot ia
fibrous like the wall, and is thickest
ut the border, where it connects with the
wall and thinnest at the center. The sole,
when in at healthy condition, scales off in
flakes. This scale is a guide to the shoer
whereby he can tell how much to pare off.
The frog is situated at the heel, at back
part of the hoof within the bare, the point
extending towards the center of tbe sole
and is very elastic and evidently d
s ghned for contact with the grouud, mid
for the prevention of jars injurious to the
limbs. Corouet is the name of the upper
margin of the foot, the place where t Li
hair ceases and the hoof begins. The
quarter means a place at the bottom of the
wall, about one third tbe length from the
heel towards the toe, Th bars acts ss
walls on each side of the wall and extend
ing towards the point of the frog.
I haven't the space to give the names oi
the different parts of the foot, but will now
try aud tell you how to prepare the footer
the shoe. The foot should always ba ma le
level, no matter what the trouble is with
the horse. The hoof should not be rut
down more than the loose scales will allow .
When the foot is iu a healthy couditi.m
this scale is a guide, but when it isds
eased it is different and the shoer nm-:
use his own judgment, and I want tj
(Continued on ptte 9.)
While returning from town the other Ly
Adolph Farrow found a calf suspended fr :,
a limb of a tree by its neck and its feeii v
eral inches from the ground. Adolp
quickly relieved the animal from it per
ilous position, and hart sir, ce been trying t
(olve the problem of how it got there. K
seems very mysterious about it, howevr,
and throws out vague hints that helutd!
covered a new species of tree.
This office printed some"rules to gut 'V
for the Chemawa Hotel this week. T:.
hotel is a new enterprise for Cherij a i
and occupies the entire new wooden b! i
(which licks only 4 itories of being
story building) in East Chemawa, u i :t
doing a thriving business under thf a t
management of "Pat," the genial cri
Pat says that he is now better prr;. ?:
than ever u accommodate bis gue :
it will be unneceneary to hang any of ;
lodgers on the picket fence wheu cro '. .
hereafter, as he has plenty of room i:. t
Many complained of being unable to m
soundly on the fence.