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and for, at the same time, giving us liis excellent remedy 

 by not shoeing at all, or to use only a ' tip.' I have the 

 management of thirty draught horses, whose work is 

 entirely on stone paved roads. They run about eighteen 

 miles a day, and at the rate of six miles an hour, includ- 

 ing stoppages. So that you can imagine what a severe 

 shaking their legs and feet would get with an ordinary 

 shoe (which weighs about thirty-two ounces) attached to 

 each foot. The horses would continually brush and cut 

 the fetlock with the shoe of the opposite foot, and very 

 soon go over at the knees ; and how was I to prevent it ? 

 Rest would often check it, as regards cutting and brush- 

 ing the fetlock, for a day or two ; but I have to study 

 economy, and cannot, in consequence, keep a sufficient 

 number of horses to rest them every thii'd or foui'th day. 

 They have to be satisfied with one day's rest per week. 

 Some of your readers may say, why do I drive them so 

 fast 1 Well, because it is a kind of business which will 

 not allow of driving slowly. 



On visiting a railway book-stall, I saw on the front 

 p^ge of the ' Farm Journal,' ' Horses — Their Manage- 

 ment and Mismangement.' I naturally wanted to know 

 if I was numbered with those who mismanaged, and, on 

 reading the paper, I very soon found out that I must 

 consider myself as one of such. I also found that ' Free 

 Lance ' was writing from practical experience when be 

 recommended that the horse should be driven barefoot, 

 or with only a short piece of iron ' curled round the toe/ 

 therefore I lost no time in sending sixpence to Mr. Stevens 

 for his pamphlet advocating the use of the Charlier 

 shoe — a shoe which I had not heard of before to my 

 knowledge. 



After reading the pamphlet, and seeing that a horse 

 coidd go ivith the frog on the ground, I at once sent Is. 6(/» 



