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the pins and let the platform drop. The horse can then be shod 

 with ease. In this way I have shod horses that could not 

 be handled by any other plan. To make the belts I take 

 two, each eight inches wide, which makes. the belt IG inches 

 wide, and it is to be remembered that the wider the belt is 

 the better.—^?/ N. P. S. 



Stocks for Shoeing Ugly Mules and Horses. 



This stock consists of light wood posts put well down in 

 the g-round. These posts are 12 feet long, 8 feet high, and 



Fig. 59.— Stock for Shoeing Ugly Mules. 



are set about 2^ feet apart and secured by plates at top, as 

 shown in illustration. Fig. 59. To the cross piece, 1, is at- 

 tached the belly-piece, or band, 5. No. 2 is the roller, to 

 which is attached the belly-band. Nos. Sand 4 are the levers 

 for winding up the roller. When wound to the required 

 height it is held in place by permitting one end of the lever 

 to strike against the plate, as shown. Two holes should be 



