494 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



tion of th.Qferrure a chaud, combined with burning the 

 hoofs in order to rob them more easily of their horn. 

 Lagueriniere' speaks of the farriers burning the horny sole, 

 to make it the more easilij pared, and the dangers of this 

 practice. ' On doit bien se donner garde de soufFrir qu'on 

 brule les pieds aiix chevaux avec un fer chaud, comme 

 font la plupart des marechaux, afin qu'ils soient plus aises 

 a parer.' Then he speaks of the clips of the shoe only 

 being made hot to fit it to the foot of carriage horses : 

 ' Mais, comme pour les chevaux de carrosse on est oblige 

 de mettre un pinqon a la pince du fer, dans cette occasion 

 on ne peut se dispenser de faire chauffer ce pinqon, afin 

 qu'il puisse s'enfoncer dans la corne ; mais tout le teste du 

 fer doit etre froid.' And Lafosse, in 1756, as we have 

 seen, speaks of the sole chaiiffee and the sole brulee ; so that 

 in this interval the farriers had resorted to the expedient 

 of heating all the sole, in order to make it more easily 

 yield to the paring-knife, though it is recommended that 

 the shoe should be fitted while in a hot state to the hoof. 



In Lagueriniere, we find the first mention of clips 

 being used to aid in retaining the shoes. In all the ancient 

 specimens I have examined, nothing of the kind is to be 

 found ; though frequently the toe of the shoe is slightly 

 curved upwards, perhaps to serve as a clip, and a nail is 

 sometimes driven into the centre of the toe, as in the 

 Hod Hill specimen, with the same object. 



Lafosse " the younger repeats, in a great measure, the 

 recommendations of his father, and appears to have tested 

 the merits of his method ; so that it is scarcely necessary to 



' Traite sur I'Ecole de Cavalerie. Paris, 1733. 

 " Cours d'Hippiatrique. 3rd edition. Paris, 1772. 



