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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