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

 tliat the groove can be made witli a common drawing 

 knife (common care only being required), but tliat tlie 

 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-pufied 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. 



MOEE ABOUT CHARLIER 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 



