CHAPTER XI 



HUNTER'S SHOES AND 

 SHOEING 



The shoeing of hunters necessitates the exercise 

 of the highest degree of skill by the farrier, 

 and it usually happens that in hunting districts 

 there is a shoeing-smith particularly skilful in 

 this particular branch of the art of farriery. 

 On the other hand, there are many shoeing- 

 smiths thoroughly incapable of shoeing a hunter 

 satisfactorily, and who persist in following 

 out this special branch of their avocation 

 upon lines contrary to correct principles. 

 The more enlightened craftsmen possess a 

 sounder knowledge of the elementary prin- 

 ciples of the anatomical construction of the 

 foot, and the relationship of its various parts as 

 weight-bearing structures. It is a noteworthy 

 fact that no craftsman receives more instructions 



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