CARRIAGE HOKSE SHOES (lIIND) FOR HORSES THAT CUT. 293 



SPECIAL SHOES FOR HORSES THAT CUT. 



FULLERED FEATHER-EDGED HIND SHOE 

 (AVITH TWO CALKINS) (Fig. 286).* 



Made of ^ x }y inch iron. 



This is a useful shoe for carriage horses used on macadam 

 roads, and for horses which slip with their hind-feet, and yet 

 require a feather-edged shoe. It gives the horse better foothold 

 and more confidence in going. The calkins should be rather 

 low and strong. In the shoe illustrated they are 1-^ inches in 

 height. The clips are placed on either side of the toe. 



FEATHER-EDOED STAMPED HIND SHOE (WITH 

 TWO NAILS INSIDE TOE) (Fig. 287). 



JIade from -|- X ^ mch iron. 



This shoe is much used in London. It is ' knocked up ' 

 inside, has a calkin on the outside heel, and is slipped at the 

 toe and outside quarter. 



Although useful as a stock shoe for carriage horses, it has 

 no special advantage, and the inside limb presenting so narrow 

 a bearing surface for the foot, soon liecomes imbedded in the 

 horn. 



* Great dilliculty has beeu found in drawing a sharp line of demarcation 

 between shoes which may properly be regarded as of every-day use and those 

 which should be relegated to special sections, such as 'cutting and forging.' 

 The arrangement adopted is far from perfect, but, in face of the great practical 

 difficulties to be encountered, the reader's forbearance is relied on. 



