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CHAPTEK XII. 



LETTER OF ' ABERLORNA ' IN 'FARM JOURNAL' — LLEUT.-COL. 

 BTJRDETT ON HOT SHOEING, GREASING, 'STOPPING,' AND 

 PARING THE HOOP — COLD SHOEING — NORTH METROPOLI- 

 TAN TRAMWAY HORSES ARE SHOD COLD WITH THE SEELEY 

 SHOE — GRADUAL BREAKING IN OF HORSES TO GO UNSHOD — 

 DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNTRIES WHERE HORSES 

 ARE BRED — ANCIENT WRITERS ON BARE STONE AND WOOD 

 FOR STALLS — OSMER HAS KNOWN UNSHOD HORSES GO 

 SOUND IN ENGLAND — ' OUR MOIST CLIMATE AND HARD 

 roads' — MAYHEW AND DOUGLAS ON OPPOSERS OF PROGRESS. 



The letter of ' Aberlorna ' ^ seems to render it ad- 

 visable to introduce here some remarks, which were 

 only intended to be made later on, as to the amount 

 of work to be first given to a horse who has had 

 the full shoe replaced either by a tip or by nothing 

 at all, and also as to small precautions useful to take 

 when making the change. 



It is prudent to allow the shoes then on to wear 

 themselves out, as this gives the frog, sole, and bars 

 a chance of somewhat recovering from their last 

 mutilation, which mutilation may have been greater 

 or lesser; as, fortunately, now-a-days some of the 

 smiths do not cut away as much horn as was pre- 



' See Appendix A. 



