490 
MANUFACTURE OF HORSE-SHOES. 
The cost is of so much consideration, that, in the e Vete- 
rinarian’ for February, 1853, p. 70, there is memoranda of 
it; and in the ‘Veterinarian’ for April, 1852, p. 204, we read 
that M. Guerdon was quite confounded. He mistook “ it is 
worth nothing ,” for national pride, instead of the pecuniary sig- 
nification of the answer. He thought only of scientific farriery, 
aided by manual skill, about the aplomb, not of making a 
plum (£100,000). He would have shod a racer as wicked 
urchins do cats, with walnut shells. The winning such 
stakes as the Epsom Derby, £5425, and changing hands of 
one quarter of a million sterling, betting on events of a few 
days’ races, are the reasons he saw English horse- shoes 
exhibited of various forms, as well as for the hunter, charger, 
&c. — uniformity never entering the heads of the exhibitors, 
but only how they could best carry on their particular branch 
of the horse-shoeing business. 
“ Tell me,” said a gentleman, w ho had been a merchant, 
speaking on the slave trade in the House of Commons, “tell 
me the profits that are made in any trade, and I will tell you, 
if it can be put a stop to. How often have we heard in this 
house, that 30 per cent, profit keeps up the contraband 
trade.” It is nonsense to say there is no profit in shoeing 
horses, in any situation, and with what is called a run of 
shoeing ; it is always increased, though this may fall to the 
luck of few. But, to return to Class xxn, in the Report of 
the Jury, these words may be found. “The character 
of the contributions seems to indicate that British hardware 
manufacture is, at present, chiefly pre-eminent for excellence 
of workmanship and material, contrivance, ingenuity, me- 
chanical skill, and other qualities which, independent of taste , 
give value to productions intended to supply the every day 
w ants.” “ British hardware of the commoner sorts stands 
unrivalled in its variety, its utility, and excellence of work- 
manship, and in its adaptation to the w 7 ants and washes of 
every class of purchasers.” Inferiority is referred to “ artistic 
ignorance of workmen” — “ accurate modelling of the toes of 
a foot (foot of a horse for instance) is thrown awoy, if the 
workman, prepossessed with his peculiar notions of finish, is 
to be at liberty to obliterate toes before he can attain the 
degree of polish w T hich he deems creditable and necessary.” 
“This deficiency arises from a want of proper understanding 
between the designer and the parties who execute the w ork.” 
The veterinary surgeon, fireman, and doorman, for instance. 
“ In an early stage of society, as indeed must always, to a 
great extent, be the case in the highest kinds of art, the 
artist and artificer, the designer and manufacturer, are the 
