Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 191. the shoe is to be regulated by the size of the foot andthe work to which the horse is accustomed; but, ingeneral, it should be made rather broad at the toe, andnarrow towards the extremity of each heel, in order to letthe frog rest with freedom upon the ground. The shoebeing thus formed and shaped like the foot, the surfaceof the crust is to be made smooth, and the shoe fixed onwith eight, or at most ten, nails, the heads of which shouldbe sunk into the holes, so as to be equal with the surfaceof the shoe. The
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 191. the shoe is to be regulated by the size of the foot andthe work to which the horse is accustomed; but, ingeneral, it should be made rather broad at the toe, andnarrow towards the extremity of each heel, in order to letthe frog rest with freedom upon the ground. The shoebeing thus formed and shaped like the foot, the surfaceof the crust is to be made smooth, and the shoe fixed onwith eight, or at most ten, nails, the heads of which shouldbe sunk into the holes, so as to be equal with the surfaceof the shoe. The sole, frog, and bars should never bepared. This, it will be at once perceived, is nothing more orless than the modern seated-shoe which Mr Clark recom-mends ; but he appears to have met the usual amount ofopposition. So much are farriers, grooms, etc., pre-judiced in favour of the common method of shoeing andparing out the feet, that it is with difficulty they can evenbe prevailed upon to make a proper trial of it. They ADVANTAGES OF THE SEATED SHOE. 513 cannot be satisfied unle
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