Xll CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Question in the ' Field ' as to an unshod Horse working 

 in London No Roads too hard for an unshod 

 Horse Xenophon on hard, rough Stable Floors, etc. 

 Erroneous Idea of ( something nice and soft ' to 

 stand upon Flint Roads of Hertfordshire ' You 

 cannot treat an organic body as if it were an in- 

 organic one ' Bracy Clark, ' the miserable, coerced, 

 shod Foot ' Bracy Clark on Difference of Growth of 

 Horn in the shod and the unshod Horse Failure 

 of Bracy Clark and Miles to produce a perfect Horse- 

 shoe .... 187 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Asphalte Paving, and different Opinions concerning it 

 Dissatisfaction that reigns with regard to the 

 ordinary Method of Shoeing Transmission by 

 Parents, of Diseases produced by Shoeing French 

 Statistics as to Diseases of the Feet and Legs of the 

 Horses in the Army Shoeing, a National Question . 198 



APPENDICES 210-224 



INDEX 225 



