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fubmit to be taught any other method of (hoe- 

 ing than that which he had learned in his youth, 

 and which, for that good reafon, he was fure 

 muR be the bed: and I was within thefe few 

 days informed, by a friend, of a dairy-man in 

 Buckinghamfhire, well known to the faid in- 

 formant, who always weighs his butter for mar- 

 ket with a family (lone, although the faid ftone 

 weighs feveral ounces above a pound ; giving 

 the following fage reafon for the practice — 

 " that as his father before him, weighed with 

 " the ftone, and did well, befure it did not be- 

 " come him, to be wifer than his father!" 



With refpecl to thofe farriers who are intel- 

 ligent, and defirous of improvement, the bell; 

 method an employer can take with them is to 

 put Ofmer's book into their hands. No man 

 of tolerable underftanding can read that trea- 

 tife without learning fomething of horfe-fhoe- 

 ing; and I have recommended it to feveral 

 young farriers of merit, both of tow T n and 

 country, who have acknowledged their obliga- 

 tions to it. Farther, every one who wifhes to 

 have juftice done to his horfes, muft infift upon 

 the following preliminaries with his fmith, which 

 are entirely within the cognizance of common 

 fenfe — namely, 



That he never weaken the foot of the horfe, 

 by paring away the fole and frog, nor deftroy 

 the bars, under pretence of opening the heels. 



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