THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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in the usual way. The horse can't kick you. A little prac- 

 tice will enable the sheer to shoe bad horses or mules with- 

 out clanger. — By Old Roper. 



How to Shoe Kicking Horses and Mules. 



I have always found the follownig- to be a safe and easy 

 way to shoe unruly horses or mules. Take a rope 1^ inches 

 thick, and splice a loop on one end of it large enoug-h to 

 allow the other end of the rope to pass through and work 



Fig. 50.— Shoeing a Kicking Mule. 



in it with ease. When you have a kicking horse to shoe, 

 lay this rope on the floor, and open out the noose so as to 

 take in the foot which you want to shoe. Then draw the 

 noose up tight around the fetlock at A, as shown in the ac- 

 companj'ing illustration, Fig. 49. P;iss the rope between 

 the fore legs at i?, and up and over the neck at C, ifiTow 

 let some man who will not drop the rope ever^^ time the 

 horse moves, hold it at the end Z>, and if the sheer gets 

 hurt it will be his own fault, for there is no necessity of 



