. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . rise and the shoe becomes loose. In Fig. 54 is shown a section of another shoe with instead of a level surface, but the slope is fromwithin outwards. The effect of this is exactly the oppo-site of the previous shoe. The wall is forced outwards,and if it does not as a whole yield to the pressure, theportion in contact is broken. When this form of bear-ing-surface is adopted at the heels of a shoe, the twosides of the hoof are violently forced apart, and it has■even been recommended as a means of exi^anding thefoot; but forcible ex
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . rise and the shoe becomes loose. In Fig. 54 is shown a section of another shoe with instead of a level surface, but the slope is fromwithin outwards. The effect of this is exactly the oppo-site of the previous shoe. The wall is forced outwards,and if it does not as a whole yield to the pressure, theportion in contact is broken. When this form of bear-ing-surface is adopted at the heels of a shoe, the twosides of the hoof are violently forced apart, and it has■even been recommended as a means of exi^anding thefoot; but forcible expansion is both unnecessary and dan-gerous. Always regarding the shoe as an extension of thenatural hoof in a harder and more durable material, it is■evident that the most stability will be attained by the so THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING. use of as wide a bearing-surface of foot and shoe as is-compatible with ease and safety to the horse. In Fig. 55 is shown a section of a narrow shoe whichtakes a bearing over the whole extent of its
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