CHEAP HORSE SHOES.
The praiseworthy fashion of providing horses with straw hats as a guard against the sun is common,but ifc is doubtful if the Japanese idea of horse shoes will ever be generally adopted, though it may have much to recommend it. In that country straw instead of iron is employed for the purpose. The shoes are made of ordinary rice straw, braided very tight and firm, making a surface the size of the horse's hoofs and about half an inch thick. They cost about a halfpenny a pair.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 45, 22 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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90CHEAP HORSE SHOES. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 45, 22 February 1902, Page 2 (Supplement)
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