ECONOMY OP THE GOODENOUGH SHOE. 39 



higher than the clumsy pieces of bent iron 

 called horse-shoes by mere courtesy, and its 

 lightness gives one-third more shoes to the 

 keg, while there is no expense of calking, 

 which, in labor and material, is equal to 

 three cents per pound. Upon the point of 

 durability, it is well settled that the heavy 

 shoe will nut last so long as the light one 

 with frog pressure. A horse set upon heavy 

 shoes grinds iron every time he moves. The 

 least interposition of the frog will reduce the 

 wear very materially, and if the frog is well 

 on the ground, a horse will carry a shoe until 

 he outgrows it. 



A horse - railroad superintendent said to 

 the writer, " We don't wear iron nowadays, 

 we wear frog and cobble-stones; nature pro- 

 vides frog and Boston finds cobble-stones." 

 "When the Goodenough shoe is put for the 

 first time upon a dry, half-dead foot, and the 

 frog brought into lively action, growth is 

 generally very rapid. We have often been 

 compelled to reset the shoe, cutting down the 

 wall, in ten days after shoeing. Many horses 

 that have been used upon pavements and 



