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UNASKED ADVICE. 



higher than the heel. Many other theories have been 

 started and found wanting, but until lately no theory of 

 shoeing which combines the principle of the two above 

 mentioned ones has appeared — namely, allowing the 

 heels to expand, and allowing the frog to rest on the 

 ground. 



M. Charlier has grappled, I think successfully, with 

 these difficulties. The idea with which he starts is that 

 Providence intended the horse to go barefoot; not of 

 necessity always upon soft ground, for then the hoofs 

 would grow out of all shape, still less always upon the 

 hard, which would wear the crust away faster than it 



could be reproduced. This, however, being the only 

 evil to be dreaded, M. Charlier guards against in the 

 most simple and effective way, by protecting the crust 

 from all possibility of injury, while the sole and frog 

 remain in an unshod condition. The shoe which pro- 

 duces these happy results is not generally known in 

 •England ; therefore I give above a sketch of it. 



