EVERY MAN 



HIS OWN FARRIER. 



CHAP. I. 



ON SHOEING. 



There aie few writers who have not offered 

 their respective opinions on the shoeing- of horses, 

 and with various degrees of abihty. The author 

 of these sheets is free to confess, that he is by no 

 means convinced that any individual can give 

 such a regular systematical form as the operative 

 smith can take for his guide, in order to suit all 

 the differently-shaped feet, wliich necessarily oc- 

 cur among a number of horses. It is difficult to 

 find even two whose feet are exactly alike in shape 

 and make. The art of shoeing in such great per- 

 fection is not required so much in some parts of 

 the country as in others : for instance, amongst 

 the farmers, and in small market-towns, there is 

 seldom any thing required out of the common 

 practice. But in large cities or towns, where the 



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