LOOK WELL TO YOUR HOESE'S FEET. 



These drawings show how many 



horses are made lame and permanently 



injured by the use of the cold-cut and 



SHEARED POINTED nails. This process 



of manufacture produces lamination, 



causing the iron to form in layers, and 



when driven into the foot the horny 



fibres of which the hoof is composed 



cause the nail to separate at the point, 



and one portion passes into the foot. 

 No 4 represents one of these nails, which was driven into the hoof, and slivered in 

 drivin<r' one thin blade passing into the quick or sensitive sole. No. 5, the thick blade 

 of the nail, passed out of the wall of the hoof for clinching. After a few days the horse 

 was returned lame, and, upon removal of the shoe, a nail similar to the above was broken 

 ofi\ leaving a sliver in the foot. Lock.taw ensued, from which the horse died L pon dissect- 

 in<i the loot, a portion of the nail was found to have penetrated through the cothn bone, 

 as"seen in Fig. 2, letter A, thus sacrificing the life of a valuable animal. 



A« the remedy lies with the owner of the horse, it is for him to prohibit any cold-rolled 

 or sheared nails being used in his horse's feet. The only Hot-forged and Ham- 

 ^r^.^ointed Horse-Shoe Nail in the World that is not cut, clipped kor 

 ^JarS Tpon thV?o7nt tnd will not split in driving, is the PUTNAM NAIL. See that 

 vour horse is shod with this nail, and avoid all nsks. 



This drawing was made from a nail, 

 showing the lamination of iron in the 



COLD-ROLLED AND SHEARING prOCeSS. 



This drawing was made from the nail 

 taken from the hoof and coffin bone, as 

 shown in Figs. 1 and 2. 



Every Putnam Nail is drawn down to a point from the rod, thus: 



The illustrations of the Putnam Nails are very interesting, as showing the superiority 

 of the nails made by the hot-forged process. The slivering of inferior nails, we are assured, 

 is not overdrawn, and what instruments of torture such jagged iron must be to the sensi- 

 tive foot of the horse can be imagined. The recommendations of these Nails, signed by 

 W. H. H. Murray, Robert Bonner and Budd Doble, speak for themselves, and could be in- 

 definitely reduplicated.- T/i^-S-pm^ of the Times, New York. Novembers, 1879. 



We address these lines to HORSE OWNERS, because they are the parties most vitally 

 interested. We feel assured that, after knowing the facts, and giving the subject due con- 

 eideration. they will, in company with such gentlemen as Messrs. BONNER, MURRAY, 

 CHAS. S. GREEN, BUDD DOBLE, JAS. G. BREEZE, and many other CELEBRATED 

 JUDGES OF HORSES, INSIST that their horses must be shod with tne Putnam Hot-forged 

 and Hammer-pointed Nail. A few months' trial \^ill always convince. 



P. O. Address, 



Nepofiset, Mass. 



THE PUTNAM NAIL COMPANY, 



BOSTON. 



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