Box Elder News Journal | 1905-04-20 | Page 7 | Horses' Shoes Get Hot

I 1 morses horses shots shoes get hot popular mechanics says that a horse shod with metal shoes should not be driven rapidly on an asphalt pavement the heat beat produced la Is painful to tho abo animal and may be injurious it cites alles an instance where two men indulged in a friendly horse race on asphalt one ot of the horses cast a shoe and when the rider picked it up it blistered his hand and did not dot cool off ol 01 for several minutes at each step tho the horse horsa slips a little and this constant friction of the metal shoo shoe under weight upon the sand in the pavement generates a big high h degree of heat I 1