98 THE HORSE : ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 



Many kinds of patent shoes have been brought out 

 during the last fifteen years some very good ones. One 

 lately introduced by Mr. F. J. L. Clark, consisting of 

 a steel shoe with pieces of india rubber let in the centre 

 of the rim which covers the sole, which he calls the non- 

 slipping horse-shoe, and I think ic will be a great boon 

 to horses : as in addition to its preventing them slipping 

 it will save a great deal of the jarring which is caused by 

 running over hard roads. I intend giving these a trial, 

 and my experience of them shall be given later on 

 in " Farm, Field and Fireside," after this book is 

 published. 



