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SHOEING. 



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 small 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 surfiice when finished, thus preventing the clinch from ris- 

 ing when brought in contact with stones, and saving the injuring of the 

 ankle. 



This drawing is made from a nail 

 such as are used in Oriental countries, 

 for attaching shoes to their horses 

 feet and have 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 



the United States, until the introduction of the Putnam Hot Forged, 



Nails which were the 

 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 condition 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 is a cross 

 section of iron from which 

 the cold punched and 

 sheared nails are made by 

 forcing a blank therefrom 

 by means of a punch which gives a blank similar to No. 1. No. 2 the 

 same as No. 1 but made liot 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- 

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



