ON SHOEING. 



How to ease the Horse by shoeing. 



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it should be known that iron, formed into moulds 

 for making of horse-shoes, when passed through 

 the machine in a white heat, will not wear nearly 

 so long as when forged with a hammer. All that 

 can be said in favour of any particular method of 

 shoeing will certainly fall short of its intended 

 purpose. Men of talents, who have worked at 

 the business for many years, and with whom the 

 author has been acquainted, still conclude that 

 there is abundant room left for improvement. It 

 were unnecessary, perhaps, to offer much more 

 on this subject, concerning which the working 

 smith alone is qualified to judge : w^e shall, there- 

 fore, conclude our strictures by remarking, that 

 Its many horses have very tender feet, and some 

 parts of the foot are more tender than others, it 

 is the province of the operative artist to give ease 

 to such parts, and to throw the weight more upon 

 those parts which are better calculated to sup- 

 port it, 



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