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THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING. 



use of as wide a bearing-surface of foot and shoe as is- 

 compatible with ease and safety to the horse. 



In Fig. 55 is shown a section of a narrow shoe which 

 takes a bearing over the whole extent of its foot-surface. 



Fig. 54. — Bearing-surface inclined 

 outwards. 



Fig. 55. — Narrow shoe with 

 level bearing-surface. 



Ill Fig. 5G is shown a shoe with as wide a bearing- 

 surface as in Fig. 55, but which loses half its bearing 

 because the foot-surface is too narrow to utilize it. 



Fig. 56.— Bearing-surface of 

 foot too narrow. 



Fig. 57.~A good bearing- 

 surface. 



In Fig. 57 we have a model bearing-surface on the 

 foot, nearly twice the width of the wall, and we have a. 

 shoe with a flat foot -surface capable of using the whole^ 

 "bearing. Such is the fitting of all hind shoes, and it 

 might well be adopted with advantage in all fore shoes. 

 on good feet. 



