48 EATIONAL HOKSE-SHOEING. 



which the highest authority has adjudged to 

 honest labor. 



EEGTILAR WORE. 



AVe wish all readers of this book to under- 

 stand that the directions herein given for 

 shoeing apply to horses whose owners expect 

 them to work regularly after shoeing — from 

 the very hour in which the shoes are set. 



We do not propose to "lay up" horses; or 

 to put them to rest in "loose boxes," nor yet 

 to "turn them out to grass." One of the 

 chief difficulties we have had with wealthy 

 owners has been from the tendency to keep 

 the horse out of tvorlc when we have got him 

 into a condition where we want exercise to 

 stimulate the alterative process we propose. 



A cure of any foot disease we have describ- 

 ed, will be much more rapidly effected if the 

 horse has his regular work upon the roads or 

 pavements to which he is accustomed, no 

 matter how hard they are. 



We hope that it has also been noticed, that 

 we do not propose to cure spavins, splints, 



