290 REMOUNT SYSTEMS OP FOREIGN ARMIES. 



Hind shoes for riding and lead horses. 



Hind shoes iritli calks for wheel horses. 



No. .5. 

 No. 6_ 

 No. 7_ 

 No. 8. 



8 or 9 heel 

 holes, 10 

 toe holes. 



8 or 9 heel 

 holes, 10 

 toe holes. 



9 heel holes, 



11 toe 

 holes. 

 9 heel holes, 

 11 toe 

 holes. 



V. — COLD-SHOEING. 



Veterinary oflficers are to make themselves acquainted with the details 

 necessary to render the system of cold-shoeing as perfect as possible, and 

 especially with regard to the requirements of field service. They should 

 be able to recognize the different sizes of shoes and nails, and know the 

 proportion of sizes required in the units to which they are attached, so that 

 provision may be made for an ample supply in barracks, on the line of 

 march, or in the field. 



In working the system, commanding officers should give veterinary offi- 

 cers every support, as the latter will have to see that the shoeing is carried 

 on with the utmost care and economy, and at the same time efficiently ; 

 that the instruction afforded by the farrier staff sergeant and sergeants to 

 the shoeing-smith, acting shoeing-sraiths, and learners, is carried out 

 properly and thoroughly, and that as many men from the ranks as possible 

 are trained to shoe. Attention is directed to the regulations issued with 

 regard to keeping men already instructed in practice by having them in 

 the forge at intervals, and for as long a time as may be necessary or con- 

 venient. 



The chief feature in the system, and the one upon which the scheme is 

 mainly based, is the adoption to a large extent of the practice of what is 

 generally known as "cold-shoeing," i. e., the cold fitting of shoes issued 

 ready for immediate use, and nails requiring no preparation, both being 

 provided from s'tore. 



One-half of the shoes and nails required for units will be so supplied, the 

 object in view being to maintain the practice of shoeing exactly as it would 

 have to be performed in the field — quickly, simply, and efficiently; and to 



