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SHOEING. 



tlie engineer to whom we intrusted the task of making them ; and the 

 plan appears to give unquaUfied satisfaction. At the suggestion of 

 several correspondents who have not seen our former article, we are 

 induced to repeat the notice, with the addition of an engraving repre- 

 senting the tools necessary; these being a drill of the required size, 

 which every smith possesses, and with which a hole is drilled in the 

 heel of each shoe, and, if needed, in the toe also. These holes are then 

 converted into female screws by means of two taps, (figs. 1 and 2,) one 



FIG. 4 



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being slightly smaller than the other, so as to make a perfect feniale 

 screw by using first the smaller one and then the larger. Besides these, 

 a spanner (fig. 3) is required to fix on the cog firmly; and the cogs 

 themselves (fig. 4) should be made by a competent smith. These may 

 all be obtained of S. M(vris, 50 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, London, 

 the price of the tools being six shillings, and of the cogs, three shillings 

 per dozen. With this outlay, any shoeing smith can fit a set of shoes 

 by drilling the heels, (and the toes, if the roads are very slippery, but 

 for ordinary work the cogs in the heels are quite sufl&cient,) tapping 

 them with the taps furnished to him, after which they are nailed on ; 

 and the horse so shod can in five minutes be roughed by his groom, by 

 screwing a cog in each hole, with the aid of the spanner. It often hap- 

 pens that the roads become frozen after a horse leaves home ; but if the 

 groom has the spanner and cogs in his pocket, he is independent of the 

 smith, and neither the delay caused by 'roughing,' nor the danger from 

 its omission, is incurred. A specimen shoe, properly fitted, may be seen 

 at the office of The Field:'— December 20, 1861. 



The plan is excellent, but it requires a little forethought and a slight 

 expenditure of ready cash. The tools for the tapping, or making the 

 female screw holes, and for the points, Mr. Lupton obtains from Bir- 



