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GENERAL OBSEKVATIONS. 



npiIE first application of the Goodenough 

 ■^ shoe is almost invariably to the feet of 

 horses suffering from some one of the forms of 

 foot disease, induced by the unnatural method 

 of shoeing. Our system is intended for sound 

 horses, to supj^ly the necessary protection to 

 the feet, and to keep them in a healthy con- 

 dition. Our rules for shoeing, embodied in 

 our circular of instructions, are applicable to 

 sound horses, and disease must be provided 

 for as exceptional. 



Men are careless and, as a rule, unobserv- 

 ant ; they go on in the old wa}'^ until the horse 

 flinches in action or stands "pointing" in 

 dumb appeal to his owner, telling with mute 

 but touching eloquence of his tight-ironed, 

 feverish foot, the dead frog, and the insidi- 

 ous disease, soon to destroy the free action 

 characteristic of health. It is when this 



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