Horses : their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., and how to prevent and counteract them . g parts the outer rim,that is, the wall or crust. He, therefore, FreeLance tell us, made a shoe of very narrow iron,less than the width of the wall, which he let in, orimbedded, to the crust, without touching the soleeven on the edge, so that, in fact, the horse stood nohigher after he was shod than he stood when bare-footed. He urged that such a narrow piece
Horses : their feed and their feet, a manual of horse hygiene invaluable for the veteran or novice pointing out the true source of "malaria," "disease waves," influenza, glanders, "pink-eye," etc., and how to prevent and counteract them . g parts the outer rim,that is, the wall or crust. He, therefore, FreeLance tell us, made a shoe of very narrow iron,less than the width of the wall, which he let in, orimbedded, to the crust, without touching the soleeven on the edge, so that, in fact, the horse stood nohigher after he was shod than he stood when bare-footed. He urged that such a narrow piece of ironwould not interfere with the natural expansion andcontraction of the foot; and in this he at once wentwrong, for malleable iron has no spring in it. Then,in spite of his theory, as he expressed it, he carriedhis shoe right round the foot into the bars, beyondwhere the crust ceases to be independent of then got a very narrow, weak shoe, about a footin circumference (if circumference can be applied tothat which is not a complete circle); and, as he oughtto have foreseen, the shoe then twisted or broke onviolent exertion. Still, as freeing the horse from alarge amount of the weight usually attached to his foot. 0^ ?. Percheron Stallion Gilding (No. 2,008, P N S. B ) One of nearly 1,000 im-ported from France by M. W. Dunham, Wayne, Du Page Co., Illinois. THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. n^ the change was an important benefit; and the lessonthus taught was not thrown away. The shoe wasreduced by a man at Melton from the full to thethree-quarter size, and in this form it weighs fiveounces. Seeleys patent horseshoe, adopted by theNorth Metropolitan Tramways Company, weighsone pound and a quarter, this being a reduction ofone-half on the weight of the ordinary shoe ; and wehave to remember that each additional ounce on thehorses foot makes a most sensible difference in theamount of work performed by him during the their horses on the principle of the modifiedCharl
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