THE PRACTICAL HORSESHOER. 187 



Shoeing a Split Foot. 



I would like to give my way of shoeing* for toe cracks. 

 Last Summer one of my customers came to mj- shop with a 

 valuable horse walking on three legs — I mean that the 

 horse walked on three legs, not the customer. I found 

 that the right front foot was split from the coronet casmg 

 down to the bottom of the foot. The shell was in two 

 pieces like an ox's foot, and blood was running out of it in 

 streams. The man had been plowing, and in turning the 

 horse had stepped with his left foot on the inside wing of 

 the right shoe, thereby, tearing the foot apart. I went to 



Cn. 



A A 



Fig. 99— A Device of " C. N. S." for Shoeinga Split Foot. 



work and made two pieces of iron, as shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration, Fig. 99, and fastened one on each side 

 of the crack, and then put a three-sixteenth inch tire-bolt 

 through it and tightened it together. I then took a five- 

 eighth chisel and cut a gash crosswise on the top. The 

 foot is now in good condition. The pieces A A, in the illus- 

 tration, are two little hooks to be burnt into the foot, B B 

 are little screws, and (7 is a tire-bolt. — By C. N. S. 



Shoeing a Cracked Hoof — Shoeing Hoof-bound Horses 



— Making Calks. 



My way of shoeing a cracked hoof is to drive one or two 

 brass nails through the crack, as shown in Fig. 100, and 

 clinch on either side well to hold the crack together. 



For hoof-bound horses I use a light shoe and drive it out 



