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the foot. Machinery has not yet turned out a shoe as 

 good and durable and well finished as the best workman, 

 •can x)roduce by hand, but it can produce many forms of 

 shoes as good for all practical purposes, and it has this 



Fig. 44. — Machine-made Shoe— Fore-footo 



advantage — all are alike. Bad workmen make bad 

 shoes, but a machine, once able to produce a good model, 

 €an repeat it exactly, therefore machine-made shoes of a 



Fig. 45. — Machine-made Shoe — Hind-foot. 



proper pattern are superior to all but the very best hand- 

 made shoes. Economy, of course, is on the side of the 

 -article produced by machinery, and all large firms keep- 

 ing their own farriers find a great saving by buying the 



