. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . ist on one of the horses lips or on one make a twist, take a piece of broom handle tvvcfeet long, bore a half-inch hole in one end and put apiece of a clothes line through so as to make a loop sixinches in diameter. Another way: Make a leather strap with a ring in,put this strap around the foot of the horse; in the ringof the strap tie a rope. Now braid or tie a ring in thehorses tail and run the rope through this ring andback through the ring in the strap, then pull the footi^p. See
. Modern blacksmithing, rational horse shoeing and wagon making; with rules, tables, recipes, etc. .. . ist on one of the horses lips or on one make a twist, take a piece of broom handle tvvcfeet long, bore a half-inch hole in one end and put apiece of a clothes line through so as to make a loop sixinches in diameter. Another way: Make a leather strap with a ring in,put this strap around the foot of the horse; in the ringof the strap tie a rope. Now braid or tie a ring in thehorses tail and run the rope through this ring andback through the ring in the strap, then pull the footi^p. See Fig. i6. The front foot can be held up bythis device also, by simply buckling the strap to the MODKRX BLACKSMITIIING l6l foot and throwing the strap up over the neck of thehorse. Shoeing stalls are also used, but they are yet tooexpensive for small shops. No horse-shoer should lose his temper in handling anervous horse and abuse the animal; for, in nine casesout of ten, will hard treatment make the horse worse,and many horse owners would rather be hit themselvesthan to have anybody hit their KASY POSITION FOR FINISHING Dont curse. Be cool, use a Httle patience, and youwill, in most cases, succeed. To a nervous horse youshould talk gently, as }ou would to a scared horse is the noblest and most useful animal to i62 MODERN man, but is often maltreated and abused. Amongstour dumb friends, the horse is the best, but few recognizethis fact. HOW TO SHOE A TROTTER In shoeing a trotter it is no use to follow a certainrule for the angle, because the angle must vary a littlein proportion to the different shape of the horses foot. VgMggMMgtMMMMMMMMMgUggM
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