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a leathern boot. Poultice and water boots. The miserable 

 practice of compelling a horse to stand upon the bare stones. 

 Dung or clay stopping for hoofs, hurtful — other measures recom- 

 mended. Allowing great modern improvement, the old leven, 

 haste, profit, and bad shoeing, too much the order of the day. 

 Bad effects of the heavy, wide webbed, convex-surfaced shoes 

 for draught horses worked on pavements. Opening the heels, 

 p. 78—82. 



SECTION XV. p. 82. 



Old English shoeing. Quotation from Blunderville, on the art 

 generally. Ccesar Fiaschi on the narrow heels of Barbs and Jen- 

 nets — on the form of the nails, and on shoeing the perfect hoof. 

 On the imperfect hoof. Paring and shoeing for interfering. 

 Character of the planch, pancelet, or bar-shoe. Enumeration of 

 the varieties and fancy shoes of that period. The Turkish shoe 

 used in Italy for racers. The present countersunk nail then in 

 use. Figures in Blunderville, of fifty different bits, and a head 

 strain, three only of them by him regarded as useful. Quotation 

 from Goodwin on the character of the present race of operative 

 shoeing smiths. Farriers' tools in present use from the same. 

 The drawing knife much improved by Mr. Long, instrument 

 maker of Holborn. List of the farriers' instruments in the days 

 of Blunderville and Markham, p. 82 — 90. 



SECTION XVI. p. 90. * 



The Stable. Stables of the first class in the country — as they are 

 in the metropolis. Flooring or pavement. Draining. Aeration. 

 Mr. Goodwin's experiment with cast iron flooring. Advantage 

 to a horse to stand loose. The author's plan of converting stalls 

 into boxes for that purpose. Racks and mangers. Cleanliness, 

 whitewashing, fumigation. No manger in a loose stall. The 

 circular, straight, or level rack, lower than usual. Iron prefer- 

 able. The hay chamber to be abolished in all regular stables. 

 Receptacles for horse corn. Heated and impure atmosphere of 

 the old running stables. Improvement commenced in the stables 

 of the late Earl Grosvenor. A moderate warmth of stable tem- 

 perature, with the periodical admission of fresh and pure air, 

 constitutionally necessary to the horse. The Rodunda form of 

 stabling, its various convenience. Due thickness of stable walls. 

 Dr. Plot, in the History of Oxfordshire, his plan of a eorn chest, 

 p. 90—100. 



SECTION XVII. p. 100. 



General stable duties and customs. Protection of weak horses 

 against the stonger while feeding. Cruel anecdote of a head 

 carter. Compelling horses to stand in their stalls on the bare 



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