CONTENTS. 5 



Veterinary Practice ; Founder ; " Counter-irritation " 



with a Vengeance 92 



Eating the Bedding; Rules that may be Safely Tried. . 96 



Check Rein 99-125 



Blinders loc 



PART II. 



SHOEING. 



Ignorance — not Cruelty — to Blame for the Horse s 



Premature Decay 103 



Value of Horse Property. 104 



Normal Age of the Horse 105 



Lord Pembroke's Opinion of Grooms 106 



Chief Source of the Horse's Suffering 107 



One Cause and Cure of Swelled Legs 107 



Unnecessary Work ; Value of Brakes 108 



A Common Fallacy 109 



Man forestalled by Nature no 



Effect of Shoe Nails in 



" Inconceivable Cruelty," as defined by Mr. Mayhew.. . . 113 



Sir George Cox's Logical Deduction 114 



Specious Arguments 1 14-1 1 5 



Not Theory, not Book, not Hobby, but Extended 



Practice 11 5-1 16 



Improvement 119 



Running Barefoot over Rocky Hills in Wales, etc 120 



Direct and Indirect Benefit of Reform ; Everybody but 

 the Blacksmith Benefited ; A Count's Experience . 



I 20-1 2 I 

 Is Judgment Based on Knowledge to Settle the Ques- 

 tion? The Opinion of the Lancet 122-123 



Adequacy of the Natural Foot for all Demands ; Inde- 

 pendence of the Unshod Horse 124 



