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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



It will be seen by referring to our history of shoeing, 

 that the only claim to scientific farriery which can be 

 admitted in this new system — allowing the frog to reach 

 the ground — is no novelty, and is achieved by the mutil- 

 ation of the best portions of the sole and crust. 



A very much less pretentious, though promising to be 

 a far more useful, invention, is the quite recent one of Mr 

 Gray of Sheffield, the patentee and manufacturer of 

 grooved steel and steel-faced bars, to be made into horse- 

 shoes. Shoes made from these rolled bars have the 

 ground surface cut into a series of ridges and teeth of 

 various forms (figs. 2,01, 202, 203), adapted to secure a 



fig. 201 fig. 202 



firm foothold, and prevent horses 

 from slipping or falling on the 

 pavement of large towns. Owing 

 to their being manufactured either 

 entirely or partially of steel — in the 

 latter case the steel is on the ground 

 surface — they can be tempered so as 

 ^^- ^°3 to preserve their denticulated sur- 



face in an efficient condition for some time ; a rather im- 

 portant feature to be noted. According to Mr Gray, 

 ' shoes made from this material will not require sharpen- 



