The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 131
Russia, and in Asia Minor, yet the author does not
believe in unshod horses for general use in England ; not
that our roads are worse, but we drive them much faster,
consequently the horse has not a chance of picking his
way, and therefore requires some protection to the crust
of the foot. The tip being by far the best and safest of
all the shoes that are made, Mr. Douglas found by care-
ful experiment that light shoes will wear longer than
heavy shoes. The contract farrier, by putting on heavy
shoes, is wrong again, and, as I have said before, he
begins his economy from the wrong end. I think 1
have said enough about the faults of shoeing, yet when
I view the horse's foot with its beautiful structure and
combinations, and see how it is cut, rasped, pegged
to pieces with many and large nails, the heels cut open,
sole and frog cut away, and last, but not least, heavy
cumbersome lumps of iron put on for shoes, I cannot
but come to the conclusion that although horses have
been shod in England since the days of William the
Conqueror, yet upon the whole our shoeing-smiths as a
rule have not advanced in the art of shoeing, and many
of our horses are shod now with as bad shoes as in the
days of the Conqueror.
RANUNCULACsE, OR BUTTERCUP POISONING.
June is the month in which fair flora puts forth all
her charms, and although she clothes our fields and
hedgerows with beauty of colour of every shade and
form, yet her beauty may become fatal to man and
beast if they do not understand the nature of the plants