Part I. PerfeSi Farrier. 9 1 



c Hurds above it> and becaufe when the Shoes are 

 c not vaulted, you will have difficulty to get in 

 ' thin dices of Wood to keep faft the Reftriftive, 

 1 (becaufe the Shoe will almoft touch theSole) there- 

 c fore after you have put in the Hurds, you muft tye 

 c a Cloth about his Foot to hold all faft.' This Re- 

 ftriclive will help to put a ftop to the too much 

 growing of the Sole, and will alfo contribute very 

 much (with the flopping of the Paftern-Veins) to 

 put a ftop to all the fuperfluous nourifhment which 

 went to the Sole, and Coffin-bone ; put alfo upon 

 the Coronet, by way of a Plaifter, fome Hoof-falve 

 fpread upon Hurds, applying it to the onfetof the 

 Hoof to caufe his Foot to grow, and renew the Plai- 

 fter every four Days, which doth a great deal bet- 

 ter than only to anoint his Feet every Day, becaufe 

 the Hoof-falve being tyed on with Hurds, and al- 

 ways remaining upon the Horn, hath more time to 

 moiften it and caufe it to grow, than the flmple 

 anointing of it. 



You muft not work your Horfe for five or fix 

 Days, that fo he may be ufed to his Shoes, which 

 will at the firft prefs his Feet •, but if after that time 

 he mean it, you muft then let him alone until he 

 be wholly accuftomed to them : And if he halteth 

 extraordinarily, it's like that he may be then prickt, 

 to which you muft take good notice, and cure it, as 

 I have taught you in the Second Part. You muft 

 continue to fhoe him after this method every New- 

 Moon,always by degrees making the Shoes ftraighter, 

 not much at the Quarters, but confiderably at the 

 Toe, A. D. which you muft retrench and keep 

 fhort by all means imaginable, as you fee it marked 

 in the Figure by the circular Line A. D. which is 

 marked with Points : After three or four Shoeings 

 your Horfe will have changed the fhape of his Feet, 

 which was unpleafant, into a better : Now it is a 

 certain Rule, that you muft always make ufe of this 



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