into use to true and balance them if requisite; at 

 this stage of growth notliing but the rasp will be 

 needed, the knife not being necessary. If this im- 

 portant part of the duties of the careful breeder 

 are judiciously attended to, then, when the foals are 

 ready to go into the hands of the smith to be regularly 

 shod, he will have but little to do except smooth off 

 their feet and adjust the shoes. ^ 



Shoes Kemoved Every Tli/ee Weeks. 



Now, then, comes up another and fully as import- 

 ant a point in the matter of keeping the feet of the 

 colts, and maturer animals, trued, balanced, in 

 proper proportion and in proper angle to the limbs 

 they support, so that the articulation shall be as near 

 smooth and frictionless as possible, and that is, never 

 aUow the shoes to remain on the feet longer than 

 thret weeks, when they should be removed, reset, or 

 new'ones put on, as the case may require. The im- 

 portance of this is obvious.^^,,^Jh^ feet in a healthy 

 state of growth, grow about/ tlw'e^-eighths (^"Vfif an 

 inch eacli month and they grow irregularly, therefore, 

 to keep the animal ^'■plumh on his pms," advantage 

 must be taken of the irregularities of growth by 

 observing the rule pointed out, as to duration of time 

 the shoes should remain on the feet, without removal. 



TO THE READER. 



After reading over the pages of this work care= 



fully, examining the illustrations, etc., please 



acknowledge receipt and write on postal card, sent 



under cover with book, your opinion of it, and 



oblige, 



Very respectfully, 



THE AUTHOR. 



10 



