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required for this style of shoeing, it is as well to state 

 that the groove can be made with a common drawing 

 knife (common care only being required), but that the 

 operation is more easily performed by a beginner if the 

 drawing knife have a guard on the blade, a moveable 

 one being preferable, by which to regulate the width of 

 the groove. But the width of the horn is sufficiently 

 apparent in all feet. 



I do not for a moment hope that foot lameness will 

 become extinct by this or any other mode of shoeing ; 

 but I am of opinion that this shoe is more calculated to 

 preserve a horse's feet and legs than any other, the 

 much-puffed Goodenough shoe included; and for the 

 simple reason that it places the foot at once in the 

 position of ' ' unshod nature " a thing which no other 

 shoe can possibly do. 



The horses specified above were all shod by country 

 blacksmiths in different counties; nevertheless, all the 

 experiments were satisfactory. 



MORE ABOUT CHAELIER SHOES. 



I thought I had long ago done with this subject ; but 

 the original question seems to have cropped up again, 

 with the original amount of difficulty in " getting at the 

 rights of it." 



First, let me answer one question which has been 

 lately asked more than once in the columns of the Field, 

 viz., Where in London can the Charlier shoe be put on ? 

 I saw it some short time ago very neatly applied at a 

 forge in Engine-street, Piccadilly ; but I cannot remem- 

 ber the name of the proprietor. It is not, however, likely 



