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and lie does not slip on the ice. This I 

 know from personal observation. Neither 

 does he slip on wet and slippery asphalt 

 or vitrified brick, or any of the smooth- 

 faced pavements of cities, which have been 

 so much complained of by horsemen as 

 dangerous on account of their extreme 

 slipperiness in wet weather. 



I have carefully compared the growth 

 of the hoof of an animal stabled as de- 

 scribed with that of horses brought from 

 city stables and turned to pasture without 

 shelter for a course of four or five months. 

 If one will observe the effect on the nutrition 

 of the hoof that occurs in a horse that has 

 long been closely stabled and is then 

 turned outdoors to pasture, he will see 

 that this effect can easily be recognized by 



