. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. BECRETARY'B llEPORT. 161. Fig. 18. • FiGUEE 18—Gives an idea of the French form of shoe, spoken of at pages 142-3. The pattern from which the cut is taken is a shoe for light riding, hut can be easily adapted to any kind of work. The cut represents the upper or sole side, the deep shading at the toe, and the light below it, showing the manner in which the whole of that part is turned up to a right angle with the slope of the front of the foot, the better to resist its concussion
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. BECRETARY'B llEPORT. 161. Fig. 18. • FiGUEE 18—Gives an idea of the French form of shoe, spoken of at pages 142-3. The pattern from which the cut is taken is a shoe for light riding, hut can be easily adapted to any kind of work. The cut represents the upper or sole side, the deep shading at the toe, and the light below it, showing the manner in which the whole of that part is turned up to a right angle with the slope of the front of the foot, the better to resist its concussion and forward action. For horses weak in the back tendons, or inclined to bend at the knees, or stumble, it is an excellent shoe to enable them to do their work with greater ease and safety; and if sanative with them, why should it not be prophylactic to those that are sound. It would be easy to multiply these illustrations to any extent, either from faulty shoes taken from feet in which they had caused lameness of one kind or another, or of varieties of improved ones that have been put forward from time to time in Britain, during the struggle that has been going on for the last fifty years for superi- ority. But it is not required. Enough has been shown to prove the need there was for a reform in the art in this country, and the need once shown, an important step is gained towards reform. To the scientific inquirer I would only say that the subject is far from being exhausted, my aim having been to confine myself to points plain and obvious, and to errors common and glaring. Could our horse-shoers generally be brought up to the standing I have indi- cated, it would then be time to introduce inquiries of more strictly Bcientific interest. But we must not attempt nor expect too much at once, nor on the other hand give up hope, although reforms are but unwillingly adopted. Here in St. John, since the preceding views were given to the public a few years ago, a most material chan
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