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CHAPTER VI. 



Youatt on the Weight of Shoes— American Trotting 

 Horse ' St. Julien ' — ' An Ounce at the Heel tells 

 more than a Pound on the Back' — Lunette Shoe or 

 Tip of Lafo&se — Douglas on the Structure of the 

 Crust — Miles on Expansion and Contraction . . 41 



CHAPTER VII. 



Expansion entirely prevented hy present Mode of Shoe- 

 ing, but favoured by ' Tips ' — Mayhew and Professor 

 Percival on ' Tips ' — ' It is the Shoe, not the Road, 

 that hurts the Horse ' — * Impecuniosus ' says there is 

 too much sameness about all existing Writings on 

 the Horse's Foot, and ' Original ' Ideas are wanted . 48 



CHAPTER VIII. 



The * Charlier ' Shoe — ' Impecuniosus ' and ' Kangaroo ' 

 on the Charlier System — Sole Pressure — India 

 Rubber Cushions and Pads — Pumice Foot — St. Bell 

 on ' Imitation of Nature ' in Shoeing — Mayhew, 



* Nature is a strict Economist' — Douglas on the 

 short average Life of our Horses — 'One Horse 

 could wear out four pairs of Feet ' — Philip Astley, 



* He who prevents does more than he who cures ' 

 —The CharUer ' Short ' Shoe, and the Charlier ' Tip' 

 — Stanley says Navicular Disease is impossible with 

 the Charlier System — Experience of Messrs. Smither 

 with Charlier Shoes — American Experience of Char- 

 lier ' Tips ' — ' Four inches of Iron curled round the 

 Toe' 54 



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