THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 



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The foreleg's are held by a strap and snap which snaps into 

 a ring- on the foot. The hindfoot is raised by standing be- 

 hind the horse and i^ulling the rope. The wedge is con- 

 trolled by a small rope running parallel with the other and 

 attached to the wedge. — By A. F. Trask. 



Shoeing a Kicking Horse. 

 In managing kicking horses 1 use a rope about twenty 



Fig. 51. — Device of A. F. Trask for Shoeing Kicking Horses, 



feet long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and 

 having at one end a loop which I put around the horses' 

 neck like a collar but loosely. Holding the other end I get 

 behind him, let him step over it, then bring the end up to 

 the loop and take a turn or two aro^und it so that it will 

 slip easily, and I can then draw the hind leg off the ground 

 as shown in Fig. dZ. When I begin to handle his foot I 

 draw the rope quite tightly and if he plunges around too 

 much I let it down a little. 



