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But if we consider the subject carefully, 

 we must see that all people who use their 

 horses without shoes have one thing in 

 common, and only one thing, and it is 

 this : that none of them have stables. 



There is no exception to this rule. 

 Therefore, if w^e wish to dispense with 

 shoes, we must dispense with stables. But 

 it is next to impossible to dispense with 

 stables, absolutely so in cities and towns. 



A stable, then, must be looked upon as 

 a necessary evil, and our aim should be to 

 minimize the evil, or, if possible, eliminate 

 it entirely. The evil is in the restricted 

 supply of oxygen, and this can only be 

 corrected by making the stable as fresh as 

 the pasture ground or the prairie. 



I have been experimenting in this way 



