218 APPENDICES. 



APPENDIX G. 



Unshod Artillery Horses. 



SIR, When defending the arguments of ' Free Lance ' 

 upon the ' Bare Foot ' system, I was met with the reply 

 that a fair trial had been given to the system some time 

 ago upon the artillery horses at Woolwich, and that it 

 proved an entire failure, so that they were obliged to 

 return to the old system of shoeing. 



This I cannot believe, but my present information will 

 not warrant me in contradicting it. I should, therefore, 

 be glad if any of your readers could inform me whether 

 such a trial was made, and how it was conducted. 



J. F. K. S. 



APPENDIX H. 



Unshod Artillery Horses. 



SIR, I am able to contradict the statement ' that a fair- 

 trial had been given to the system some time ago, upon 

 the Artillery horses at Woolwich, and that it proved an 

 entire failure, so that they were obliged to return to the 

 old system of shoeing,' and to inform J. F. K. S. that the 

 Royal Artillery have never tried their horses in England 

 without shoes. 



R. C. R, Major-General. 



