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Title Horses and roads Author J. T. Denny (Free Lance) Year 1880 Publisher Longmans, Green and Co. Address London Source djvu Progress Done—All pages of the work proper are validated Pages   (key to Page Status) – – – –  i  ii  iii  iv  v  vi  vii  viii  ix  x  xi  xii 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 – adv adv – – – –

CONTENTS.     PAGE CHAPTER I. Springs and Brakes to Vehicles 1 CHAPTER II. Douglas on Horse-shoeing — Street Accidents and Brakes — Lord Pembroke and Mayhew on Servants 10 CHAPTER III. Nostrums — Arsenic and Antimony — Hoof-ointments — 'Stoppings' 17 CHAPTER IV. Litter — Xenophon and Lord Pembroke on Bare Paving for Stalls — Physicking and Blistering — the Bearing Rein 22 CHAPTER V. Shoeing — Lord Pembroke on Servants — Lupton on Farriers — Fitting the Foot to the Shoe — Calks — Injurious Effects of fitting Shoes by burning them on — Douglas on Cold Fitting — Shoeing in Spain — Brushing 29 CHAPTER VI. Youatt on the Weight of Shoes — American Trotting Horse 'St. Julien' — 'An Ounce at the Heel tells more than a Pound on the Back' — Lunette Shoe or Tip of Lafosse — Douglas on the Structure of the Crust — Miles on Expansion and Contraction 41 CHAPTER VII. Expansion entirely prevented by present Mode of Shoeing, but favoured by 'Tips' — Mayhew and Professor Percival on 'Tips' — 'It is the Shoe, not the Road, that hurts the Horse' — 'Impecuniosus' says there is too much sameness about all existing Writings on the Horse's Foot, and 'Original' Ideas are wanted. 48 CHAPTER VIII. The 'Charlier' Shoe — 'Impecuniosus' and 'Kangaroo' on the Charlier System — Sole Pressure — India Rubber Cushions and Pads — Pumice Foot — St. Bell on 'Imitation of Nature' in Shoeing — Mayhew, 'Nature is a strict Economist' — Douglas on the short average Life of our Horses — 'One Horse could wear out four pairs of Feet' — Philip Astley, 'He who prevents does more than he who cures' — The Charlier 'Short' Shoe, and the Charlier 'Tip' — Stanley says Navicular Disease is impossible with the Charlier System — Experience of Messrs. Smither with Charlier Shoes — American Experience of Charlier 'Tips' — 'Four inches of Iron curled round the Toe' 54 CHAPTER IX. Description of Frog and Sole, by Douglas — Russell on Hot Fitting, and 'Clips' on Shoes — Facility of 'Backing' when a Horse stands upon his feet — Strength of the Horse's Toe — Excessive Growth of Horn on Toes of Unshod Donkeys in Ireland — All Shoeing only an Affair of Routine, and is quite unnecessary — Mayhew, 'Veterinary Surgeons cling to the Practices in which they have been educated' — Retreat of Napoleon from Moscow with Unshod Horses 70 CHAPTER X. Unshod Horses in the Indian Mutiny — Unshod Horses in the Zulu War — Farriers in the Army are Tailors, etc. — 'Daily Telegraph' on Frozen Streets — Comparative Inutility of Cogs and Studs — Unshod Horses in Mexico, etc., and their remarkable Freedom from Lameness and Diseases of the Feet and Legs 83 CHAPTER XI. Brittle Hoof and the Treatment it gets — The 'Water- cure' more effective — Brittle Hoof often leads to Sandcrack, Seedy Toe, and Pumice Foot — Hard Roads are favourable to the Unshod Hoof 91 CHAPTER XII. Letter of 'Aberlorna' in 'Farm Journal' — Lieut.-Col. Burdett on Hot Shoeing, Greasing, 'Stopping' and Paring the Hoof — Cold Shoeing — North Metropolitan Tramway Horses are shod cold with the Seeley Shoe — Gradual Breaking in of Horses to go unshod — Different Characteristics of Countries where Horses are bred — Ancient Writers on bare Stone and Wood for Stalls — Osmer has known Unshod Horses go Sound in England — 'Our moist Climate and hard Roads' — Mayhew and Douglas on Opposers of Progress 100 CHAPTER XIII. 'Aberlorna's ' Second Letter in 'Farm Journal' — His second Horse shod with Tips—Putting on Tips—His Experience in South America of the Exuberance of Growth of Horn and its Toughness, in Unshod Horses—Shod Horses go lame over good roads, whilst the unshod ones go sound over those of the very worst description—Ignorance of People in England of the Nature of a Horse's Foot—'The Lancet' on the Indefensibility, in a Physiological Light, of the Use of Horseshoes—Success of two Gentlemen in working unshod Horses in England—Newspaper Complaints, about the Slipping of Horses, and Stoppage of Traffic on Ludgate Hill—The false Light in which Slipping is looked at 119 CHAPTER XIV. Ludgate Hill only rises about four feet in every hundred — Societies — The Bearing Rein only required on Cripples 129 CHAPTER XV. Brittle Hoof—Ignorance of Farriers—' Impecuniosus ' says the existing Ideas on the Horse's Foot have sprung from wrong roots altogether—Fearnley says 'The Charlier is the most Common-sense Shoe ever invented' 135 CHAPTER XVI. Custom of H. Jennings of training Racehorses unshod, and running them in their Races with Tips on their Fore Feet, with the Hind Feet bare—'Evening Standard,' instance of impaired Sight in a Young Lady from wearing high Heels on her Boots— Many Diseases of Horses may he attributable to Ill-treatment of their Feet — Caries of the Teeth is known to affect a Horse's Action — Veterinary Dentists in America — Crib-biters, Wind-suckers, and Weavers— Letter of a Cavalry Officer in Daily Telegraph ' — His favourable Experience of Tips and Unshod Horses 143 CHAPTER XVII. The Hunter considered — Experience of 'Impecuniosus' with Tips on Hunters — Miles on Unilateral Nailing — Col. Anstruther Thompson's Experience with Guttapercha Soles — Natural Transpiration continually going on in the Horse s Foot 156 CHAPTER XVIII. The Lady's Horse — Must not be exposed to Stumbling — Light Tips will wear as long as heavy Shoes — Horses as Hacks for Elderly Gentlemen — Park Hacks — Carriage Horses — Abnormal Action and graceful Action — Concussion through the Iron Shoe — Bearing Rein for 'Screws' — It 'pulls them together' — Cruelty thereof — 'Docking' a Horse's Tail is Vivisection — 'Cutting' caused bv Shoeing — Cruel Mode of Cure at present employed — Coachmen 165 CHAPTER XIX. The 'Ride and Drive' Horse — Omnibus, Van, Tramway, and Cab Horses — Tramway Mules — Mr. Fearnley on Calks — Unscientific Shoeing of Mules — Mr. Fearnley on the Charlier Shoe — Bracy Clark — Mayhew on the various kinds of Shoes 176 CHAPTER XX. Question in the 'Field' as to an unshod Horse working in London — No Roads too hard for an unshod Horse — Xenophon on hard, rough Stable Floors, etc. — Erroneous Idea of 'something nice and soft' to stand upon — Flint Roads of Hertfordshire — 'You cannot treat an organic body as if it were an inorganic one' — Bracy Clark, 'the miserable, coerced, shod Foot' — Bracy Clark on Difference of Growth of Horn in the shod and the unshod Horse — Failure of Bracy Clark and Miles to produce a perfect Horseshoe 187 CHAPTER XXI. Asphalte Paving, and different Opinions concerning it — Dissatisfaction that reigns with regard to the ordinary Method of Shoeing — Transmission by Parents, of Diseases produced by Shoeing — French Statistics as to Diseases of the Feet and Legs of the Horses in the Army — Shoeing, a National Question 198   Appendices 210-224   Index 225