. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . Fig. 56.—Bearing-surface offoot too narrow. Fig. 57.~A good bearing-surface. In Fig. 57 we have a model bearing-surface on thefoot, nearly twice the width of the wall, and we have with a flat foot-surface capable of using the whole^bearing. Such is the fitting of all hind shoes, and itmight well be adopted with advantage in all fore good feet. FITTING AND APPLICATION OF SHOES. 81 Clips are tliin projections drawn up from the outerborder of shoes for the purpose of giving greater securityto their position on a foot. On heavy c
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . Fig. 56.—Bearing-surface offoot too narrow. Fig. 57.~A good bearing-surface. In Fig. 57 we have a model bearing-surface on thefoot, nearly twice the width of the wall, and we have with a flat foot-surface capable of using the whole^bearing. Such is the fitting of all hind shoes, and itmight well be adopted with advantage in all fore good feet. FITTING AND APPLICATION OF SHOES. 81 Clips are tliin projections drawn up from the outerborder of shoes for the purpose of giving greater securityto their position on a foot. On heavy cart-horses, theclips are sometimes of great size and encourage the ideathat the smith looks upon them as designed to assist thenails to retain the shoe on the foot. They should haveno such purpose, their use being merely to j^revent theshoe shifting to one side. A clip should not be narrowand high, it should be low and wide, so that its bearing istaken against the lower edge of the Avail. A high clip isa most serious danger when shoes get loose a
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