. The art of horse-shoeing. Horseshoeing; Hoofs; CHR 1905; PRO McNeil, John H. (autograph); PRO McNeil, John H. , Mrs. (donor). 156 THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING. The inventors of nailless shoes are men with no practical knowledge of shoeing. They are able to recognise the palpable injury inflicted by a wrongly driven nail, but they seem entirely ignorant of the much more common injuries due to badly fitted shoes. In all their circulars they ex- hibit this ignorance by stating that their invention can be fixed by anyone. They know nothing of the necessity of the growing hoof being kept proportionat
. The art of horse-shoeing. Horseshoeing; Hoofs; CHR 1905; PRO McNeil, John H. (autograph); PRO McNeil, John H. , Mrs. (donor). 156 THE ART OF HORSE-SHOEING. The inventors of nailless shoes are men with no practical knowledge of shoeing. They are able to recognise the palpable injury inflicted by a wrongly driven nail, but they seem entirely ignorant of the much more common injuries due to badly fitted shoes. In all their circulars they ex- hibit this ignorance by stating that their invention can be fixed by anyone. They know nothing of the necessity of the growing hoof being kept proportionate, or of the ex- actness of fit required by a shoe on the bearing-surface of the hoof. Their invention needs only a novice to attach it to the foot—so they say ! The two most common methods by which inventors have tried to supersede nailing are—{a) by clips on the toe and quarters, (6) by metal bands running across the front of the hoof and attached to the shoe on either side towards the heels. The three following figures show a nailless shoe in which a short sharp spike or stud is fixed on the foot surface of the shoe in addition to the Fig. 129. (a).—Foot-surface of Nailless Shoe. The spike assists to give firmness to the attachment. The following directions are copied, with the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunting, William, 1846-1913; Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU. London : H. & W. Brown
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