HORSESHOEING. 601 
THE BAR SHOE. 
The bar shoe (fig. 9) has a variety of uses. It enables us to give 
the frog pressure, to restore it to its original state of activity and 
development when, by reason of disuse, it has become atrophied. It 
gives the hoof an increased surface of support and enables us to re- 
lieve one or both quarters of undue pressure that may have induced 
inflammation and soreness. The bar of the shoe should equal the 
average width of the remainder of the shoe and should press but 
lightly on the branches of the frog. The addition of a leather sole 
Fic. 10.—A fairly formed right 
Fic. 9.—An acute-angled left fore hoof shod with u fore- ice shoe for a roadster. 
bar shoe. Note the width and position of the bar The toe and outer-heel calks cut 
and the fact that the nails are placed well toward at right angles, and the inner- 
the toe, so as not to interfere with the expansion heel calk is slender and blunt. 
of the quarters. The back surface of the toe calk 
should be perpendicular. 
with tar and oakum sole-packing allows us to distribute the weight 
of the body over the entire ground surface of the hoof. 
THE RUBBER PAD. 
Various forms of rubber pads, rubber shoes, rope shoes, fiber shoes, 
and other contrivances to diminish shock and prevent slipping on the 
hard and slippery pavements of our large cities are in use in differ- 
ent parts of the world. In Germany the rope shoe (a malleable-iron 
shoe with a groove in its ground surface in which lies a piece of tarred 
rope) is extensively used with most gratifying results. It is cheap, 
durable, easily applied, and effective. 
