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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



reared in marshy lands, have the frogs diseased. 'Employ 

 the half-shoe {Jer a lunette) ; the heels and neighbouring 

 parts will become hard, and the shoulders and arms will 

 be brought better into play. Light work, but not on 

 bad roads. Only apply these shoes for some months.' 



The remaining chapters 

 are devoted to various 

 kinds of shoes, suitable 

 to different varieties of 

 hoofs, or horses whose 

 manner of going was de- 

 fective ; as well as the 

 method of shoeing vi- 

 cious horses. The figures 

 of shoes he gives are 20 

 in number. No. i. Fore- 

 shoe without calkin (fig. 

 160). 2. Shoe with the 

 calkin a f Aragonaise on 

 one side, and the other 

 side thickened (fig. 161). 

 3. Lunette shoe, or 'tip' 

 (fig. 162). 4. Three- 

 quarter shoe (fig. 163). 

 5 . Bevelled shoe, with the 

 Aragonaise calkin on one 

 branch, and the other 

 thick at the heel (fig. 

 164). 6. Shoe with sciettes, or projecting toothed bor- 

 der, and thickened towards each heel, to prevent slip- 

 ping (fig. 165). 7. Thick-sided shoe, thin towards the 



