Formerly only plain four-sided bars were supplied for farriers. Now manufacturers roll bars with flat or seated foot surfaces, and with various forms of ground surface. These prepared bars only require to be cut into proper lengths, turned round, and holes punched for nails to form a very good shoe. For harness horses the double-grooved (Rodway) bar is very handy and very serviceable. For hunters, bars can be had ready fullered and concaved. For hind shoes of hunters a very good prepared bar is made, which, being rounded on two edges, affords a shoe without trouble that guards against over-reaches.

Too near inner edge.

Too near outer edge.

Fig. 639. - Wrongly-placed Nail-holes.

Fig. 640. - Pitch for Nail-holes for Quarters.

Fig. 641.-Pitch for Nail-hole for Toe.

Machine-Made Shoes

All sorts of shoes are now supplied ready for nailing on, made entirely by machinery. For front feet these shoes are all that is wanted, but for hind feet the best hand-made are still unequalled. No doubt engineering skill will soon be able to supply a hind shoe which will last a month on a hard-wearing horse and yet not be heavy and cumbersome. There will be a large demand for such a shoe when it appears.