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when working np to his speed, but yield readily to the driver's will. A 

 horse, bitted in this sensible way, can be driven a forty-clip with the lines 



held in one hand, or be lifted 

 over a five-barred gate with 

 the strength of a single wrist. 

 If you do not believe it, try 

 it and see. 



A Convenient Horge- 



slioe— An:oug the numerouB 

 horseshoes latelj' devised in 

 this and other countries, that 

 invention in England, by Mr. 

 Joseph Offord, seems worthy 

 of special notice. Its object 

 is to fit the hoof with a mov- 

 able but firm covering, which 

 can be readily adjusted to 

 fit every kind of work and 

 road, so that, like its master, 

 the horse may own several 

 sets of shoes for different 

 occasions. The device con- 

 sists in having one or more 

 perfectly wedge-shaped holes 

 in the side and close to the 

 edge of each shoe (Fig. 1), in 

 which triangular cogs, or 

 wedges, are inserted. These are fastened by the fangs being brought, with- 

 out touching the hoof, to the outside of the shoe, over which they are 

 clenched with a small hammer. The 

 cogs do not penetrate the hoof, and 

 there is no risk of hurting the horse. 

 The holes being wedge-shaped, can- 

 not fill up with stones or dii-t, and 

 the fangs being malleable, the wedges 

 are easily removed or inserted at 

 pleasure. It is necessary, however, 

 to get the holes punched in the shoes 

 before the horse is shod, and for the 

 coachman to be provided with a siip- 

 ply of these patent cogs to insure 

 safety on any road in frost or on 

 wood. 



As many are accustomed to use a 

 cog which screws into the shoe, Mr. 

 Offord has prepared a steel wedge- 

 shaped one (Fig. 2) for this purpose. 

 The screw cogs are, of course, more 

 expensive. In using them the shoe 

 has to be drilled and tapped with 

 one or more holes before the horse is shod. The cogs are inserted into these 

 holes when needed, or removed at pleasure by meana of a wi'ench provided 



HOKSESHOE. — ^FIG. 1, 



HORSESHOE.— FIG. 2. 



