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THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1853. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
In reference to the order issued from the Horse Guards to 
the different regiments of cavalry, in February last — a copy 
of which will be found in our Number for March following — 
a letter has recently been received from the same source, 
ordering a “ report ” to be made, by the commanding officers 
of the several regiments, cc as to the advantages or inconve- 
niences which have attended the introduction of the system 
of shoeing therein recommended.” On this point, our own 
opinion was pretty fully expressed at so early a date as the 
1 st of March, succeeding the order for the “ introduction of 
the system,” received on the 4th of February preceding. 
Not that any or sufficient trial of the new mode of shoeing 
horses could have been made within the space of twenty-four 
days ; but that, for our own part, it was so manifest that the 
introduced system was a compound of what we had already 
practised, and what we had long considered superseded by an 
improved mode of proceedure, and for that reason had for some 
time been relinquished, that we felt no hesitation whatever 
in at once pronouncing on its comparative inferiority. We 
did this at the time of its announcement, as will be seen in 
the number of our Journal for March last ; nor can we say, 
now, that the es system ” has had six months’ trial, that we 
feel the slightest disposition to alter one word of our first 
opinion. We said (in our leader in the said March number): — 
“ That the regulations recently issued by the authorities at 
the Horse Guards will answer one, and that the principal 
end they appear to have in view, viz., the establishment of 
uniformity in a practice in which the different cavalry regi- 
ments differ one from another in almost as many respects as 
there are regiments, we entertain no doubt: but that they 
will carry this point without forfeiture of something beneficial 
to the service, or without the introduction of something detri- 
mental to it, seems to us very problematical.” 
