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THE ART OF HORSESHOEING. 



ready-made shoes. Under conditions Tvlien shoes must 

 he fitted without a fire, as in coal mines, or in the case of 

 armies during a cam])aign, the machine-made article has 

 the advantages of regularity of form and a true level 

 bearinj? surface. 



Fio . 40.~Sectiou:; of rolled bar iron. 



In little shops where often only one man is at work, 

 either machine-made shoes or prepared bar iron offer 

 great conveniences. The prepared bars can be bought 

 seated on the foot-surface and with a single or double 

 groove on the ground-surface. Very narrow bars suit- 

 able for tips, "Charlier," or light hack shoes are now 

 widely used, and a special bar — flat on the foot-surface, 

 concave to the ground — can be obtained which only 

 requires cutting into lengths and turning round to form 

 a first-class hunting-shoe. 



Fzc. 47.— Sections of light pattern bar iron. 



Both prepared bars and machine-made shoes must be 

 judged by their form and by the material used in their 

 manufacture. Some are better than others, but all have 

 to contend with a large amount of trade prejudice which 

 has little basis, except in the matter of the hind shoes;, 

 here machinery has not yet reached perfection. 



