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in shoes, nailed on one side only, leaving the foot on the 

 other side free to expand ; this was an immense point 

 gained, and it only remained for some idle man, like myself, 

 with inclination and means, and no reputation to lose, to 

 make these extra-professional experiments, to show even to 

 Mr. Turner liimself the wonderful working of his invaluable 

 system. 



No horse experiences the full extent of the benefit of 

 one-sided nailing with few nails like the hunter ; it is a 

 great boon to every horse, but to him it is a blessmg of 

 the highest order, and one in which his rider participates 

 more largely, than some persons appear to imagine. When 

 a hunter is shod in the usual manner with seven or eight 

 nails, some are always for the sake of security placed in the 

 inner quarter, ' which is the most expansive portion of the 

 hoof Let a horse, with his feet so circumstanced, be called 

 upon to leap from the top of a high bank into a hard 

 road, and what happens "? the weight of the horse and 

 his rider is thrown with an impetus, which greatly increases 

 that of both, upon the bones of the foot ; tliese are 

 jammed with immense violence into the hoof, both sides 

 of which are so fettered, that neither can yield, to make 

 room for them ; and they consequently squeeze the exquisitely 

 sensitive lining of the hoof between their own hard sub- 

 stance, the unyielding horn, and the shanks of one, two, or 

 tlu'ee naUs, as the case may be, in a most merciless manner. 

 The effect of this upon the horse may be readdy realized 

 to any one, who will jump down from a height on a 

 resisting floor in boots, a little tight ; let him repeat the feat 



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