470 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



without shoes, Solleysel mentions that those of the Ger- 

 man peasantry are not shod ; though he asserts it would 

 be much to their advantage if they were, as the limbs and 

 feet were in nearly every case he saw more or less de- 

 formed. 



M. Bernard recently confirms this observation, by 

 stating that in Lorraine, Alsace, and Bavaria, he saw very 

 many agricultural horses unshod, and that deformities of 

 the hoofs were common.' 



' Journal de Med. ret. Mi/ it aire, vol. iv. p. iii. 



