. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . ss of ashoe may be very serious, it is better to have one toomany than one too few. Machine-made Shoes.—Horse-shoeing is distinctlyan art requiring special skill for its proper x> is also one of the most laborious of all skilled which lightens mechanical toil tends to im-prove the mental and artistic qualities of the workman,and all applications of machinery which lessen the heavymanual labor of the farrier may therefore be looked uponas improvements. Machinery has lightened the laborof shoe-making in two wa
. The art of horse-shoeing : a manual for farriers . ss of ashoe may be very serious, it is better to have one toomany than one too few. Machine-made Shoes.—Horse-shoeing is distinctlyan art requiring special skill for its proper x> is also one of the most laborious of all skilled which lightens mechanical toil tends to im-prove the mental and artistic qualities of the workman,and all applications of machinery which lessen the heavymanual labor of the farrier may therefore be looked uponas improvements. Machinery has lightened the laborof shoe-making in two ways—by supplying various pat-terns of grooved and bevelled iron in bars, which onlyrequire cutting into lengths and turning round to formashoe, and also by making shoes all ready to be fitted to THE FORM AND MANUFACTURE OF SHOES- 6? the foot. Machinery has not yet turned out a shoe asgood and durable and well finished as the best workmancan produce by hand, but it can produce many forms ofshoes as good for all practical purposes, and it has this. Fig. 44.—Machine-made Shoe—Fore-footo a,dvantage—all are alike. Bad workmen make badshoes, but a machine, once able to produce a good model,■can repeat it exactly, therefore machine-made shoes of a
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