The Art of Horse-Shoeing: A Manual for Farriers

by William Hunting

Fig. 53.—Bearing-surface inclined outwards.

Fig. 54.—Narrow shoe with level bearing-surface.

In [Fig. 55] is shown a shoe with as wide a bearing-surface as in [Fig. 54], but which loses half its bearing because the foot-surface is too narrow to utilise it.

Fig. 55.—Bearing-surface of foot too narrow.