Part I. PerfeSl Farrier. p*j 



to the Feet, which rend ret h a Horfe unferviceable 

 for the Street or upon hard Ground } fo that People 

 are neceflitated to fend them to draw the Plough, 

 which had they wanted that fault, would have beea 

 good, and might have ferved for a Coach. 



It happeneth alio, that when a Horfe travelleth 

 upon vaulted Shoes, he treadeth only upon the mid- 

 dle of the Shoe, for it cannot all equally touch the 

 Ground, bccaufe of its roundnefs, fo that it hind- 

 reth the Horfe to go fo firmly as otherwife he would, 

 and alfo maketh him flip. 



The foreft way therefore, is to reftify fuch bad 

 Feet in the beginning, and efpecially in the time 

 when Horfes alter or change their Horn, which is 

 the firft fix Months after they come from Flanders. 



But fuppofing that your Horfe's Feet be yet in a 

 condition to be helped, you muft reftrain their 

 growth in the Soles, as 1 have fhewn you for the 

 Flat-feet •, or if his Heels be narrow, fhoe him with 

 a Panton-lhoe, and after the former fafhion, with- 

 out vaulting or hollowing it *, you muft alfo pare but 

 little from his Feet, and leave his Sole ftrong,fhorten 

 his Foot at the Toe, and put thefe Panton-ihoes up- 

 on him } if his Heels, I fay, be narrow near to the 

 Shoe, then put the Reftri&ive into his Foot which 

 I ordered before ; or otherwife let him ftand with 

 his Feet, being (hod after the fafhion I have been 

 fhewing you, in his own Dung, being kept a little 

 moift that it may not heat, and let him ftand fo 

 until he halt no more, always keeping the Dung 

 moift upon which he ftandeth ; at the fame time put 

 about his Foot a Charge or Softner reafonably warm, 

 or Hoof -falve, as I have before order'd you. You 

 muft alfo renew, two or three times, the Applica- 

 tion of the Reftridtive, and the Charge or HooN 

 falve, keeping him always (hod after the former 

 manner \ but if his Foot, after Shoeing be very high 

 and round foled, you muft then let him ftand eight 

 or ten Days upon his Litter. If 



