Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . he concavity of the can be no doubt whatever as to the advantages tobe gained in employing shoes of this description. Thesole is partly supported, as well as the whole of the crust,by the wider surface of metal, while the narrower surfacetowards the ground affbrds security of tread. For ordinarywear by carriage or saddle horses, the English hunting-shoe, on unmutilated hoofs, is excellent. The hind shoes,however, should have no calkins; neither should hind orfore shoes be thickened towards the heels: this is a
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . he concavity of the can be no doubt whatever as to the advantages tobe gained in employing shoes of this description. Thesole is partly supported, as well as the whole of the crust,by the wider surface of metal, while the narrower surfacetowards the ground affbrds security of tread. For ordinarywear by carriage or saddle horses, the English hunting-shoe, on unmutilated hoofs, is excellent. The hind shoes,however, should have no calkins; neither should hind orfore shoes be thickened towards the heels: this is a verybad practice. For hunting or other purposes, a slight modificationof this form of shoe can be made, which gives it a stillfirmer hold, especially on grass land. Besides the concavesole and frog in the unshod foot being of the greatest utilityin affording a secure grasp of the ground, the angle formedby the bar and crust at the termination of the heel mustalso be looked upon as a useful agent in this way, andparticularly in preventing the extremity of the limb from. A GOOD FORM OF SHOE. 66^ slipping forward. Some time ago, I devised a shoe some-thing in this form, which has been employed on the roadand in the hunting-field, on fore and hind feet, and withmost satisfactory results (fig. 207). Instead of the bevel on theground surface gradually be-coming shallower as it ap-proaches the heels, as in theordinary hunting-shoe, in myshoe it is rather shallow at thetoe (a) ; and as it passes back-w^ards gets deeper, until, within fig. 207 an inch or so of the extremity of the shoe, it has cutdown through the thickness of the inner border and ab-ruptly stops, leaving a sharp catch {b), that, like the inflexion Though for ages it has been known that the sole, especially at itsmargin, will sustain the pressure of the shoe, I put my own method ofshoeing to a practical test during the hot weather in September last. Itis certain that long journeys on hard roads during the summer months,
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