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ON BAR SHOES. 
to the length of time the shoe is worn. Hence, it often follows, 
that a horse that wears a bar shoe once, wears it for ever, as it 
actually produces the disease it was meant to cure. 
I am perfectly aware that it is much easier to shoe horses on 
paper than it is in the forge; and I also know, there are some 
feet which can only be shod so as to make them go sound in the 
very sort of shoe I would condemn as generally mischievous, viz. 
one which is bent up to keep it from touching the heels, instead 
of being made thin over the heels, more particularly the outer 
edge of it, which is opposite the crust; but these, owing to several 
causes which do not properly belong to this subject, are getting 
very rare; and some of them have, no doubt, been produced by 
being shod, in the first place, with the shoes they are now com¬ 
pelled to wear. 
Now, though I must confess that the art of shoeing at some 
forges in London is brought nearer perfection than it ever has been 
before, yet I was led to make these remarks, by having lately 
seen several bar shoes, which had been put on at some large es¬ 
tablishments, totally devoid of principle, both in the construction 
and application, and yet finished in a very superior manner, and 
highly creditable to the makers as mechanics. This is a state of 
things that ought not to exist at the present time; and though 
I am fearful this will not be read by many who are entrusted 
with the important duty of fitting and putting on the shoe, I 
think their employers may derive both honour and profit, would 
they attend to this branch of the art themselves; instructing 
those who are ignorant of the principles of shoeing, and confirm¬ 
ing, by judicious, explanation, those who are doing the thing pro¬ 
perly, in many instances, I am afraid, by mere accident. 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1 , 1835 . 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.— -Cicero. 
It is with a more than usual degree of satisfaction that, laying 
before our readers the concluding number of another year, we 
review this portion of our literary life. What our friend Mr. Hol- 
ford says is too true,—that the brighter stars of our profession have 
not shone upon us so often and so brilliantly as we could have 
wished. They have acted by us as do the planets that might 
