Part I. Per feci Farrier. S7 



and form, and alfo in the time that you reftrain the 

 Toe by cutting it, the Heel will ftrengthen. Now 

 thefekind of Feet growing only at the Toe, all the 

 nouriihment of the Foot goeth there, and fo the 

 Heel becometh always narrower, and daily weaker \ 

 but if you obferve that which I tell you, to cut the 

 Toe with the Cutting-knife, having only as it were 

 blanched or cleaned the Sole with the Butteris, and 

 that you put the Shoe at the Toe a Finger's breadth 

 or an Inch back, according as the Toe is too much 

 fprung, and that afterwards you cut away the Horn, 

 I allure you the Foot will take quite another form 

 or fhape, which will be a great deal better, and the 

 Heels will alfo ftrengthen. 



But if your Horfe's Heels be low and not narrow, 

 and that the Frufh be large or fat, with great diffi- 

 culty will you keep it from touching the Ground, 

 and then your Horfe will be in danger of halting, 

 efpecially when he is riding upon hard Ground. 



To prevent it, I think there is no other Remedy 

 than to give him Calkins, after the fafhion of the 

 point of a Hare's Ear, which is done by turning the 

 inlides of the Spunges the whole breadth of the Shoe, 

 and making them after the fafhion of Calkins ; now 

 thefe kind of Calkins will not do great harm to his 

 Feet, and he will alfo go the more firmly with them 

 upon the Street, or in flippery Ground ; fo by this 

 means you will hinder his Frufh to touch the Ground. 

 It is not that I approve of Calkins, after whatever 

 fafhion they are made, the great Calkins are the 

 worft, and thofe which fpoil rnoft a Horfe's Feet ; 

 but thefe after the fafhion of the point of a Hare's 

 Ear are the leaft dangerous ^ and if People could 

 alfo difpenfe with the Want of thefe, it would he 

 ftill fo much the better. 



But if the Horfe which hath low Heels, have 

 them alfo narrow near the Shoe, although that his 

 Frufh be large (which is not ordinary) you muft 



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