Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . mane tried the experi-ment of leaving the hoof entirely without battered, condemned, and hopelessly diseased screw then ran five hundred and forty miles with-out shoes, and did his work with more ease than that his worst horse didso well, Humane removed theshoes from three others, the resultanswering all his expectations. Un-fortunate!/, horses, like men, havereasons to pray to be saved fromtheir friends. Some well-meaningbut ignorant persons raised the cryof cruelty, with all the usual nonsense about artificialr
Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . mane tried the experi-ment of leaving the hoof entirely without battered, condemned, and hopelessly diseased screw then ran five hundred and forty miles with-out shoes, and did his work with more ease than that his worst horse didso well, Humane removed theshoes from three others, the resultanswering all his expectations. Un-fortunate!/, horses, like men, havereasons to pray to be saved fromtheir friends. Some well-meaningbut ignorant persons raised the cryof cruelty, with all the usual nonsense about artificialroads compelling the use of artificial protection, and Humane was obliged to have the horses again did not, however, return to the ordinary shoe,but employed the tip, which, though it may do nogood, does less harm to the hoof than any other formof shoe. I regret to say that I have heard of more thanone case where the managers of the E. S. P. C. openly declared that they will prosecute any-one who rides or drives a horse without HOOF OF TRAM-CARHORSE (HUMANE). SAVE ME FROM MY FRIENDS. 177 They refuse to make themselves acquainted withthe structure of the hoof, to listen to arguments,or examine proofs. Mostly they have made up theirminds that to drive a horse without shoes over hardroads would be as cruel as to make a man take offhis shoes and run over the stones at once. Sometimes they have consulted farriers, grooms,&c, and of course have been told that for a horseto traverse roads unshod would be impossible, be-cause if the hard iron be worn away by friction, thecomparatively soft horn could not possibly endurethe work. Thinking that people who have beenemployed about horses all their lives could not bemistaken in such a subject, they accept the state-ment as if it were the result of experience based onfacts, and were not, as it really is, a mere opinionof a subject in which they have had no practicalexperience. N 178 HOUSE AND MAN. CHAPTEE XI. Hardening
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