98 The Compleat Horfewan : or, 



for the more that you enlarge your Shoe at firlt, the 

 more you mult enlarge it the next Shoeing, and that 

 is the way abfolutely to lofe your Horfe •, for it is far 

 more difficult to re&ify your Horfe's Feet, and give 

 them a good fhape, when once deformed, than in the 

 beginning, when they have good Feet, and their 

 Horn altering, to preferve them, becaufe they are 

 then capable of receiving any form you intend to give 

 them : Horfes which have big and large Feet, altho' 

 they be not flat, yet are more fub>e& to have them 

 eafily fpoil'd than any other, if People take not care 

 at every Shoeing to retrench them, until the nature 

 of the Horn be changed. This is what I thought 

 good and neceflary to be pra&ifed for this kind of 

 bad Feet } I (hall in the following Chapter continue 

 to fpeak of other forts of bad Feet than thefe I have 

 already difcourfed of. 



CHAP. XXV. 



How Horfes that are Hoof-bound, or N arrovo* 

 beePd, fhould be food* 



I Have already (hewn, that a Hoof-bound Horfe, 

 is a Horfe whofe Heels fo prefs the Bone within 

 the Hoof, or the Coffin-bone, that they either make 

 the Horfe to halt, or at lead hinder him to travel 

 eafily : To cure it, People take out the Horfe's Sole, 

 and cleave his Fruih, which (hall be treated of in the 

 Second Part, Sell, 2. or other wife People remedy it 

 by the help of Shoeing } but when a Horfe is ill 

 Hoof-bound, People oft-times gain Time by taking 

 out his Sole, provided that they cleave his Frufh to 

 facilitate it ♦, but People, who have not had the expe- 

 rience thereof, can but with difficulty, at firft, be 

 perfuaded to make Tryal of it. 



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