The sun., 1898-02-27
THE HORSES SHOES.
Number OF Sets Required In the Course or &
Year and How Much They Cost.

Number OF Sets Required In inc Course or q
Year and How Much They Coat.
A work horses shoes cost good deal more
than its drivers shoes do. Truck horses. deliv-
cry wagon horses. and the great number Of
horses used for various working purposes. in
cluding many horses driven to hacks and other
public carriages. are ordinarily shod
month at cost of $3.50. so that the work
horses shoes are likely to cost $50 q year any
way. and there may be some additional expense
for sharpening and resetting.
Sharpening costs $3.50. Whether this 10
necessary or not depends, OF course primarily
upon the weather; it may depend much upon
the time OF day the horse is driven. There may
be seasons in which sharpening is not necessary.
Not all drivers get the shoes OF their horses
sharpened even when the going is slippery.
Such going may come about suddenly and un-
expcctedly. and it may be OF brief duration;
and then there are drivers who under ordinary
circumstances take the risk of the greater cost
of u broken shaft or injured animal to save
the cost OF sharpening. OF work horses
In general. probably something more than
half have their shoes sharpened when the
going is slippery: there are some. however,
whose shoes are almost all kept sharpened at
such times. these being tho horses that work at
night and in the carly morning before the sun
has softened the ice or melted 1t away; these in.
cude horses driven TO milk wagons, bakers
horses. and SO on. how often the shoes are
| sharpened depending on the going.
| Usually when Il horse Is shod he is shod all
| around. Sometimes there is occasion to put on
| a single shoe. as when horse throws a shoe.
| The cost of single new shoe is one-fo irth the
| cost of set: in the case of work horse, SO
| cents. The charge for resetting the old shoe
would be 80 cents. Rcsetting in general. from
more than half, as much as fitting horse with
| new shoes; In putting on single shoe an old
those remaining on. II 1t is not too much worn
| the shoe the horse has cast would he put back IL
the driver pickSd 1t up it Is suit%6le and it MS
put on from the pile in the shop, slipper being
the shop name Of the worn. shoe taken off and
| thrown aside when horse is reshod.
| Horses have peculiarities in wearing their
| shoes. Just as men do. Some wear them off more
at the toe, some more at the heel. and some
wear them more on one side than on the other.
| Horses shoes wear Off more quickly on granite
| greatly increased use of asphalt pavement has
led to correspondinEly increased use OF rubber
| pads in horses shoes TO give the horses better
/ fitted to the horses foot and nailed on with the
shoe. Shoes with rubber pads Of this kind. FOR
Tbey Tb are likely to- 10 wear @ longer than
shoes without d', paGs, but they are are com n
OF eio month The necessity essi &c for @ reshoena @
| the horse at intervals of about a month is due
in considerable degree to the natural growth
| OF the horses hoofs which require trimming or
other attention about once in so often. In the
case of iron shoes at the end Of a month. when
| worn to go another month. and new shoes are
| put on. In the OF rubber pad shoes. i. they
| are not too much worn. they are reset. and this
may be done in perhaps 40 or 80 per cent of
| the cases. Sometimes the old shoes may be put
back with new pads, sometimes the old pads
| with new shoes: II depends good deal on the
| manner in which the horse wears them. So that
| while the first cost of rubber pad shoes is con-
! sderably greater than that OF plain Shoes the
| net cost Is not so much greater.
| The price charged for shoeinG n private coach
or carriage horse Is doll more than for shoe
| ing a work horse. or SO. so: and rubbcr.pa
| shoes such those described. for carriage
| horses. cost So or $6 set. Such horses are
| rcshod ordinarily. ike most horses. once a
month. and rule their shoes are also reset
| in the middle Of IN" month. And the shoes or
private carriage horses arc more commonly
| kept sharpencd in slippery weather than are
| those OF work horses. Women more likely
| 10 be disturbed by the slipping OF "A horse than
| a man would be. and the carriage horses are
| usually more valuable than work horses. and
less risk Of injury is taken.
In some cnses il might be that the charge for
shocinG a horse, either a carriage horse n
| work horse would be according to the time re-
! Quired rather than by the job. as. for example.
| in the OF Il lame horse, in shoeing which
more than tho usual time would be needed.
Shoes are made and fitted to meet nnv require
ment, and the cost might be. according to the
amount OF work and time expended, from 81 to
So for single shoe.