Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-09-28
NO IA SAIlI.Ess HORSESHOE.

inflicted in the process or ShoelnS' lheh over and above the mortality actually in cured from careless shoeing or pricking of the hoof with nails, there is a great amount of suffering inflicted upon the animals from the same cause, which either throws the animal aside for time from work, or entails costly treatment, or very often both. Then the piercing of the hoof so often as is necessary in street horses with nails has the effect of wasting the wearing surface of the foot. and thus impairing its durability. Fur thcrmore there arc many horses whose feet arc so shelly and brittle that 1t is matter of the greatest difficulty to Keep nailed shoes on them. In the event of the shoes being removed from horses that go to grass the feet are frequently damaged from having been riddled with nails. while the replacement of the shoes is often attended with intense pain and suffering to the animals.
 Further evidence might be given in favor of a shoe which could be affixed 10 tho foot without nails. The utility of the nailless shoe, shown in the annexed cuts, as shoe for harness and army horses, has, according to Mark Lane Ex press, been proven, while 1t IS claimed that tits extension to every class ot horses in the country is simply matter of, adaptation." The diagrams of the shoe indicate not only the formation of the shoe itself but the manner in which it is affixed to the hoof.
 1 On reference to these. it will be seen that at the toe of the shoe is piece oi steel called the front pillar. This can be
 tapped so as to form any angle with Che
 inside surface of the shoe, in order tC
 adapt it to the shape of the hoof, agains
 which it fits closely, as represented II
 the illustration of the side view. In tht
 diagram of the shoe, there is at the toe
 behind the front pillar, a small piece o
 steel, which fits into a small groove mad
 in the foot to receive it In the event
 however, of the horse suffering iron
 ''seedy toe." this piece of steel is don
 away with, and two diagonal studs, SC
 at opposite angles on each side of the toe
 are substituted; and as this alternativ
 plan is just as effectual in every way.
 can bo adopted with all horses instead
 the toe pieces if preferred. Beyond th very slight groove the hoof requires II preparation whatever.
 At the heel of the shoe there wei - originally heel pillars, as shown in u
 illustration of the side view; but in u ' latest patterns these pillars are abolishe' and the substitute, while equally effict I cious. is smaller. To this heel pillar, I it's substitute, is fastened the steel ban
 shown in the side view illustration, ar f which, when in place, runs parallel n the top of the hoof round it, and joins (
 to the top of the front pillar. Original
 the band was made in two halves, as d
 picted in the front view diagram; b
 now the band is continuous from ol . heel to the other, and to the top of tl 5, front pillar third prong is added, ov
 which the loop in the middle of the bal 1e' slips. To fix the shoe, it is only nect d sary to raise the horses foot, place t ., shoe in position, pass the band roun ~ and slip the loop in the center over t "' prong of the front pillar, and all is tau - Now when the shoe is fixed, as shov
 in the illustration, it cannot shift fC o- ward because of the opposition of | + toe studs and front pillar; it cam ,2s work back on account of the toe stu a and the band; while it cannot drop it n, because of the band and front pill: it The band, it may be observed, fits rou ,,fht the smallest portion of the hoof, a in therefore cannot get below a cert; lld1 point; hence the support given by it SC the shoe, No part of the hoof is co