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SHOEING. 



even if its cost should be double that of the cold rolled nail, because no 

 shoer can take the risk of injuring his customer's horse. 



Use only the very best of nails; drive as s?naU and few nails as will hold 

 the shoe firmly and securely to its place. See that the nails fill the holes 

 and the heads the crease, leaving little, if any, to project beyond the ground 

 surface when finished, thus preventing the clinch from rising when brought 

 in contact with stones, and saving the injuring of the ankle. 



This drawing is made from a nail 

 such as is used in Oriental countries, 



ii |fc^ « ^ for attaching shoes to their horses^ 



Mlli?^ feet, and has been employed since the 



15th century. 



This is an ordinary hand-made 

 nail made from the rod when at 

 a welding heat, and still in use in 

 England and Europe, and also in 

 introduction of the Putnam Hot Forged 

 Nails, which were the 

 IliiilllM^^ first successfully in- 



troduced Hot Forged 

 machine nails, and this drawing shows the similarity of manufacture to 

 that of the hand-make, and when in a finished conditvm it is identical 



with those of hand-make 

 when ready for use, and 

 has no equal in the long 

 list of machine-made nails. 

 This drawing represents 

 a cross section of iron from 

 which the cold punched 

 and sheared nails are made 

 by forcing a blank there- 

 from by means of a punch 

 which gives a blank similar to No. 1. No. 2 the same as No. 1, but made 

 hot instead of cold. These blanks are put through a series of rollers and 



drawn into the form of No. 3, 

 with an indentation on the thin 

 end for the scarfed points, which 

 conduct the nail out of the hoof. 

 No. 4 represents the piece 

 which is removed by shearing 

 the blade of No. 3, and pro- 



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duces the nail No. 5 complete. All are aware that the rolling of iron 



