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I think this plan a very good one where the horse 

 owner has not much work pressing, as is the case with 

 most Irish farmers at this time of year. 



Perhaps in the next generation people will begin to 

 see that 'Nature beats Art.* 



Co. Armagh, June 29. D. S. 



Three gentlemen, as will be seen, have given their 

 experience of doing away with the ordinary full shoe — 

 one of them has used an ordinary tip, and another the 

 Charlier tip, and both of these without losing any work 

 from theii- horses : whilst the third has at once done 

 away with all iron, with only the precaution of not over- 

 working his hoises from the outset. They have all 

 succeeded, and are satisfied that they have conferred a 

 great benefit upon their horses. 



London, August 1880. The Author. 



