MANUAL FOR ARMY HORSESHOERS. 99 



101. To close the heels.— By shortening the bar. 



(a) When the quarters are of the correct length.— Heat 



the bar and heels and, holding one heel on the face of the anAdl, 



shoe perpendicular, strike on the elevated heel. This vrill 

 shorten the bar, also narrowing and straightening the quarters. 



(b) When the quarters are too short.— Place an inside edge 

 of the triangular part of the bar on the point of the horn and strike 

 on the part projecting over it. This will turn part of the bar into 

 the heel. 



