Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . ow toshoe them so as to improve their con-dition. I found the feet in good shape,but the sole and wall were very thin andweak, the effect, undoubtedly, of thehorse being slightly foundered or over-heated. I advised putting on a shoethat would support the sole and frog, thespace between the shoe and frog to bepacked with oakum. He objected thatthis would not do, as the horse wouldnot bear any pressure at all upon the sole. Some time afterward myattention was called to a veryhigh indorsem
Magner's ABC guide to sensible horseshoeing : a simple and practical treatise on the art of shoeing horses . ow toshoe them so as to improve their con-dition. I found the feet in good shape,but the sole and wall were very thin andweak, the effect, undoubtedly, of thehorse being slightly foundered or over-heated. I advised putting on a shoethat would support the sole and frog, thespace between the shoe and frog to bepacked with oakum. He objected thatthis would not do, as the horse wouldnot bear any pressure at all upon the sole. Some time afterward myattention was called to a veryhigh indorsement from this gen-tleman of a certain form of patentshoe that had been used on thishorse. It stated that it enabledthe horse to travel as well as ever,and that its utility was all thatcould be desired. I was interestedto know just what kind of a shoehad been used, and when again inthat vicinity, I found one at con-siderable trouble, of which I givean accurate drawing. (See ) While it may be evidentthat in many such cases the shoecould be made to support the en-tire sole, if hammered out of Fig. 558.—The Shoe Adjusted. 64 SHOEING. th-e increased weight would make it seriously objectionable. Thefitting of a thin piece of steel plate, as shown in Fig. 5i>8, would en-able this to be done with but little addition to its weight. Themanner of putting it on was simply by bringing the whole sur-face of the wall ana frog to an even bearing, to which the shoe wascarefully adjusted. Next, the space betweenthe shoe and bottom of thefoot was filled with oakum,to which was added a littletar and resin, so as to forman even but firm support allthe way round.* The draw-ing of the oakum, as it ap-pears in Fig. 601, is an ex-act illustration of that whichwas used upon the shoenamed, though only theback part of it is who had used theshoe upon feet which hadbecome sore and tenderfrom driving upon hard,stony roads in the city andneighborhood, stated thatit enabled th
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