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| 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 |
