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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



part of it which is to be placed immediately next the foot, 

 a narrow rim or margin is to be formed, not exceeding 

 the breadth of the crust upon which it is to rest, with the 

 nail-holes placed exactly in the middle ; and, from this 

 narrow rim, the shoe is to be made gradually thinner 

 towards its inner edge (figs. 191, 192). The breadth of 



fig- IQI fig. 192 



the shoe is to be regulated by the size of the foot and 

 the work to which the horse is accustomed; but, in 

 general, it should be made rather broad at the toe, and 

 narrow towards the extremity of each heel, in order to let 

 the frog rest with freedom upon the ground. The shoe 

 being thus formed and shaped like the foot, the surface 

 of the crust is to be made smooth, and the shoe fixed on 

 with eight, or at most ten, nails, the heads of which should 

 be sunk into the holes, so as to be equal with the surface 

 of the shoe. The sole, frog, and bars should never be 

 pared.' 



This, it will be at once perceived, is nothing more or 

 less than the modern seated-shoe which Mr Clark recom- 

 mends ; but he appears to have met the usual amount of 

 opposition. ' So much are farriers, grooms, etc., pre- 

 judiced in favour of the common method of shoeing and 

 paring out the feet, that it is with difficulty they can even 

 be prevailed upon to make a proper trial of it. They 



