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CHAPTER XX. 



PAGK 



Question iu tlie ' Field ' as to an nnsliod Horse working 

 in London — No Roads too hard for an unshod 

 Horse — Xenophon on hard, rough Stable Floors, etc. 

 — Erroneous Idea of ' something nice and soft ' to 

 stand upon — Flint Roads of Hertfordshire — ' You 

 cannot treat an organic body as if it were an in- 

 organic one ' — Bracy Clark, ' the miserable, coerced, 

 shod Foot' — Bracy Clark on Difference of Growth of 

 Horn in the shod and the unshod Horse — Failure 

 of Bracy Clark and Miles to produce a perfect Horse- 

 shoe 187 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Asphalte Paving, and different Opinions concerning it 

 — Dissatisfaction that reigns with regard to the 

 ordinary Method of Shoeing — Transmission by 

 Parents, of Diseases produced by Shoeing — French 

 Statistics as to Diseases of the Feet and Legs of the ', 



Horses in the Army — Shoeing, a National Question .198 • | 



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Appendices 210-224 



IxDEX 225 



