The art of horse-shoeing / by William Hunting.

  • Hunting William, 1846-1913.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The art of horse-shoeing / by William Hunting. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    where between those two points. The idea that such pre- cision is attainable in modifying a horse's action by shift- Fig. 133.—A Moveable Toe Weight. in the weight half an inch is preposterous. The whole thing is a piece of empiricism. Mr. Jos. Cairn Simpson published a book at San Francisco in 1883 on Tips and Toe Weights. No writer has approached the subject with more knowledge, but his work is far from convincing. In his last chapter— Unsolved Problems—he says, When I v^ote the pre- ceding chapters of the appendix, about two years ago, I then thought I had a fair knowledge of weight on the feet of horses. Now, after that length of time of study, obser- vation and tests of many experiments, I am in doubt, and in place of offering rules for the guidance of others, am forced to admit a want of confidence to make statements with any degree of authority. A few pages further is the heading—Side-weights Useless. His whole position is summed up in the quotation from page 38—Weight is advantageous in the education of many trotters, but I am greatly in doubt of any benefit accruing after the schooling has progressed to a certain stage. Further than that, I have faith that the trotter of the future will be relieved from the incumbrance of heavy masses of metal on the feet, whether in the shape of shoes or weights. In another work on shoeing, published in 1895, the author—Mr. W. Kussell, of Cincinnati—attempts an explanation of what he calls balancing a horse by