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Totnes. My weight being over twelve stone, and 

 the roads almost impassable for horses shod in the 

 ordinary way, I was highly gratified to find that the 

 mare was able to trot over the slippery ground 

 without fear of slipping, and this encouraged me to 

 persevere with my treatment. After the nail-holes 

 had disappeared in the natural growth of the hoof, 

 the frog grew to its natural state, and the hoof as- 

 sumed its natural form. 



4 From the time of my first experiment to this 

 date (March 11, 1882) the mare has been without 

 shoes, and has been worked both for riding and 

 driving constantly on the roads in this neighbour- 

 hood, all of them hilly, and some of them very rough 

 and trying to horses. 



' The result has been that the mare has never 

 fallen lame nor shirked work, but nas stepped with 

 greater freedom and ease than she ever did before. 



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Sometimes, during this period of fourteen months, 

 she has travelled ninety-six miles in one week, and 

 now she is as sound as a bell, and never has suffered 

 from the absence of shoes in any way whatever. Nay, 

 more ; before I removed the shoes she was occasion- 

 ally lame, but since their removal she has not been 

 lame once. 



' Those of your readers who know what Devon- 

 shire roads are will, I think, concede that the test 



