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half worn away before they were termed worn out. Nor 

 was this all ; the horse did not slip half as much with 

 the narrow shoe, and it entirely altered the horse's 

 action. With the heavy shoe, he drove his feet along 

 the road ; with the light ones, he lifted his feet free 

 from the ground, and put them down evenly and firmly. 

 The author has had many cart horses shod for farm 

 purposes, and found that if a horse with a foot 6i in. 

 across was shod with shoes weighing 5 lb. the set of four 

 shoes, they would last as long as any shoe ought to 

 be kept on, and in many instances Avhere the horses 

 have been working on the land they would be good 

 enough to remove after a month's work. This is proof 

 that heavy shoes are more expensive than the narrow- 

 web, light shoe, and it is false economy to load horses' 

 feet with iron. The carriage horse requires for its work 

 a different kind of shoe, yet whether the horse is shod 

 for cart, carriage, or hacking, the one principle should 

 rule all, viz., lightness of shoe, with true, even bearing 

 upon the wall of the foot ; as few nails as possible should 

 be used, and each shoe made to fit the foot, not the foot 

 to fit the shoe. Upwards of forty kinds of shoes have 

 been made from time to time, each possessing some real 

 or imaginary advantage, many of them being good, and 

 one in particular, called the " Goodenough," which is 

 good enough to lame half the horses with its ponderous 

 weight and softness of metal. Another shoe has been 

 before the public from time to time during the last 

 twenty years, named the"Charlier," after Mons. Charlier, 

 the inventor of that system of shoeing. It has many 

 advantages over the old-fashioned shoe, but it again has 



