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CONTEXTS OF THE FARMERS' REGISTER,
NO. 9. VOL.
Original Communications.
Remarks on different grasses for hay and
pasture
Thegreensward and blue grass of Virginia
Editorial remarks on wheat straw for potatoes
% Extracts from reports of the executive
committee of the "Association for promoting
currency and banking reform"
Disputed questions in agriculture"
The necessary consequences of adm itting
the plea for the continued suspension
of specie payments
Experiments of planting corn with one or
more stalks at a place
Now edition of Liebiff's Organic Chemis
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try
Objections to the oat and tobacco rota,
tion
Remarks on the soils of part of Surry
connly
Collecting fossil shells
Board of Agriculture
Late wheat
Editorial remarks on notices of grasses
Notices of grasses and weeds :
Wire grass
Darnel or spelt
Rye grass
Summary of news
Selections.
A discourse on the character, properties,
and importance to man of the natural
family of plants called gramineae, or
true grasses?concluded
On turnips
On the construction of ice-houses
Wheat straw for Irish potatoes
Vats for walo?*.rotting hemp
Particulars relative to water-rotting hemp
Of atmospherical moisture and temperature
The blister flyAmerican
blister fly and peach tree gruh
driven off by lime. Fish oil for peach
and plum trees
Lme?marl?top-dressing
Salt lie, or spent lie
Plan to remove stumps
On the extermination of nut-grass
American cotton planters in India
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saw.ausi
Garlic, a cure for kidney worm
Snow-storms in mountiun districts
Statistics
Seven tons of green fodder to the aero
Report on hogs
The principles of breeding cattle
Preservation of timber
Breeding of stock
S?>il proper for the vine
Factory baths?Exercise useful for swine
Front yards?Shrubbery?Flowers
Blue wash for walls
A brilliant stocco white-wash
Charcoal for diseased lungs in hogs
Growth of the vine in England
Wheat and peas, alternately,
The eider-duck in Iceland
Guano
On making sugar from Indian corn stalks
List of the agricultural societies of South
Carolina
Renewing old handsaws
A Thibetan yak
On bran as manure
Fecundity of rats
Management and diseases of hogs
Oil soap?Willis' syringe
A simlplo means of preventing the failure
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ui IIIU |;uiniwi.iu|i
Operations of liches
The Dutch commercial system
Protection of the hop plant from insects
Coal dust
Fattening swine.
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From the M Dublin Journal of Medical Science.'
" GLANDEKS IN THE HUMAN SUBJECT.
Dr. Hutton said that, as four or five
cases of glanders in the human subject,
within a comparatively short period, had
come under his own notice, or that of the
surgeons of the House of Industry, he
was anxious briefly to lav them before
the Rociety, and also to exhibit a specimen
of the disease as it had manifested
itself in the lungs of a patient who died
about two days before. Previous, however,
to entering on this case, he would
read the details of another, in which
some experiments were made with the
I view of testing the character of the poi<
I son, and ascertaining whether it wai
1 glanders or not. One of the results ol
1 these was, that an ass, inoculated with the
: matter taken from the patient, was in due
course attacked with the disease.
? The case was recorded by Mr. Ruther'
ford, one of the resident pupils of the hospital,
for whose accuracy Dr. Hutton
, could vouch.
The patient, a young man, named P.
1 Kelley, aged about twenty, was admitted
j. in Richmond Hospital on the 20th of Au.
gust, 1838. On admission, his face prei
sented that peculiar aspect which is so
characteristic of glanders; the left half
was very much swollen, tense, and shining,
the-redness fading away gradually, and
becoming lost in the surrounding integurriftnfs.
Both eyes, but particularly the left
eye, were closed from inflammation and
oedema of. the lids. The Jeft ear was
swollen, of a dark red or livid color, and
the patient was quite deaf on that side.
The glands of the left side of the jaw
and face were much enlarged and indurated
; and he complained of a feeding of
numbness in the whole of that side of the
head and face. About an inch and a
half in front of the ear there was a large
flaccid vesicle. There were also two
pustules on the face, one of which had
burst and was sloughing. On various
parts of the body there wore numerous
pustules in different states, from the first
to the more advanced stages.
In the first stage, the skin in the situation
where the vesicle afterwards appeared
was of a peculiar pale, whitish appearance.
In the next stage the vesicle
appeared, not however exactly in the centre
of the pale spot, but rather on one
side of it. In a more advanced stage it
became sero-purulent, then pustular, and.
some time afterwards, the pustules began
to shrink and become depressed in the
centre. The mucous membrane of the
mouth was inflamed and covered with
a viscid adhesive mucus. The Schneiderian
membrane was also inflamed; but
there was no discharge of purulent matter
from it.
The patient had the ordinary symptoms
of irritative fever. His head was
very confused, but he had no pain or
raving,?his bowels rather free?his urine
high-colored.
He stated that he had alwavs been
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healthy ; and when questioned as to the
nature of his occupation, said that he had
been employed for the last four months
in attending horses which were laboring
under glanders. That he had been retained
specially for that purpose, and
groomed the animals once a day. He did
not recollect that he had a wound or sore
on either hand ; he had not drunk out of
any vessel used bv the horses, nor had he
slept in the stable. He attributed his
illness to fatigue after a long journey, and
said that the first symptoms he had no.
ticed were pains in his knees, followed by
headache. Four days afterwards the left
side of tho head and face began to swell,
with increase of fever and depression of
strength.
On the 27th, the day after admission,
his symptoms were progressing. The
tumefaction of the head and face increased,
and several livid vesicles made
their appearance, accompanied by severe
pain in both jaws. Several more began
to show themselves on the anterior parts
of the arms and chest?his pulse became
smaller, and rose to 120?his respiration
was somewhat suspicions?his breath
foetid?and he felt pain when the ends of
the long hones were pressed on, in the vicinity
of the joints. His head was still
confused, hut he had no raving. Towards
eight o'clock in the afternoon there was
a further exacerbation of his symptoms.
He made water tolerably well, but did
not seem to be aware of passing it.
He was ordered to take len grains
of sulphate of quinine three times adav.
On the 28th the eruption was still extending
; his pulse 140, and weak ; his
thirst excessive, and he raved frequently.
At half-past 3 in the afternoon, he was
restless, and tossing about in bed, with
constant involuntarv motion of the lower
extremities, quick small pulse, and hurried
respiration. Twelve new spots had
now made their appearance ; his fever
and delirium were increased; he was
passing both urine and faeces involuntarily.
There was a discharge of sanious
fluid from the left ear, but none from the
nostril.
On the 29th a farther exacerbation of
symptoms took place. The left elbow
joint was swollen and painful?the pustules
increased in number and size, and
were intermixed with gangrenous bullae;
and, along the internal and anterior parts
of the thighs, in the situation of the absorbents,
pale rose.colored swellings began
to appear. His breath was foetid,
and the odor from his whole body was al
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most insupporiaoie. ne imu uu uncharge
from the nostrils, but on examining
the nose, Dr. Hufton observed a
small ulcer on the left side of the septum
narium. The man died during the course
of the night.
?
On the post-mortem examination, a
great number of small circumscribed abscesses
or purulent depots were found in
the extremities?as many as thirty were
on the left arm. There were two or three
of the same kind io the pectoralis major,
A'f>
. and several of the same description in the
i recti of both thighs, all circumscribed and
T embedded in the muscular tissue. In the
t left lung there was a small depot of pus
) surrounded bv a dark livid border, and
another of the same kind was discovered
. in the right lung. On the poster or sur.
face of the heart there were dark-colored
i spots, and the blood was remarkably fluid
in all the vessels. There was a deposi,
tion of pus under the mucous membrane
I of the larynx, and also on the posterior
surface of the epiglottis. The left half
of the face was in a semi-gangrenous
i state.
On the 27th of August, the day after
Kelley's admission, the experiment was
again repeated on another ass with matter
taken from the vesicles and pustules on
his body. The lymph was inserted into
the left nostril of the animal, the pus into
the opposite one; and it was also inserted
i into the ear. On the following evening
the ass appeared unwell, and, on the next
" e ii
day had an enlargement 01 one 01 ine
glands of the jaw on the left side, with
increased heat and tenderness, accom.
' panied by feverish symptoms. The left
ala nasi was swelled, and the line of absorbents
from this to the glands on the
side of the jaw could be distinctly traced.
On the next day there was a profuse
watery discharge from both nostrils, particularly
the left: and on the following
day?the fifth day after inoculation?the
discharge was purulent. Soon afterwards
the animal was killed with nux vomica,
it having been previously ascertained by
Mr, Ferguson, V. S., that it was really
glandered.
On examination, a cluster of pustules
having a tubercular aspect were found
in the left nostril; in the right there were
circular patches of ulceration. Similar
ulcers were found in the interior of the
stomach, and there was a cluster of pustules
in the anterior lohe of one lung.
There was no morbid appearance in the
larvn* nr frnrhea.
Dr. Hutton exhibited several drawings
to shew the condition of the various
parts, particularly the nostrils, stomach,
and lungs.
The next case, to which he would
merely allude, as it was about to be published
by Dr. M'Donnel, who had charge
of it, had occurred a short time ago at
the Richmond Hospital. The patient
was admitted for an accident, from which
he recovered ; but befo-e he left the hospital
he was seized wifn an affection of
the joints, followed by i.n eruption of pustules
along the side of the nose, which
were recognized as being connected with
glanders. Mr. Smith procured some of
the matter, and inoculated an ass, which
in the course of four or five days became
' sick, and was subsequently attacked with
glanders. The same phenomena as observed
in the last case of inoculation were
present. The cartilages of thejoints were
also found to be ulcerated.
Dr. Hutton exhibited some drawings
f show the condition of the parts. He
. >o produced one of a case that had oc'
curred some years ago at the Richmond
Hospital, under the care ot the late ur.
McDowell, before the disease was sufficiently
known. The drawing had beer,
made by Mr. Conolly, and I)r. Hutton
observed, that he had represented the
features of the disease with great accuracy,
and depicted most faithfully
the white areola which encircles the vesicles.
Since that period the areola has been
invariably found to be present in every
' case, and is regarded as one of the pathognomonic
features of the disease.?
This has been also noticed by Dr. Hut.
ton, Mr. Adams, and other observers,
and forms one of the marks by which
the disease is distinguished from phlebitis.
Dr. Hutton then said that he should
next proceed to read the notes of a case
that had recently come under his observation.
The patient, T. Butler, a boy
bout five years of age, was admitted into
the Richmond Hospital on the 13th of
December, 1^40. It was stated that he
had been always a fine healthy child up
to the period of his illness. He complained
at first of sickness, and pain in his1
bowels, and, on the following day, had j
pains in his knees. About three days
afterwards the left side of the face and
eye-lid became swollen, and the usual
symptoms of irritative fever set in, accompanied
by thirst, restlessness, quick
pulse, and scanty urine.
On the 5th of December the fever was
increased, and the other side of the face
was involved in swelling. On the 7th, a
number of pimples with white tops appeared
on the inflamed surface. On the
13lh, the date of his admission, his face
i was greatly swelled and inflamed, and
presented a number of pustules mixed
with several ash-colored ulcers. He had
also an eruption of pustules over his hody~
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Some or ine.se were naneneu aim somewhat
vesicular, like chicken-pock?some
were conical and pustular, and some in a
state of incrustation. Around several of
them, particularly those which were in
, the earlier stage, the peculiar white areola
was still visible. Several of the joints
were swelled and painful, and there was
an evident effusion into the left elbowjoint.
The child was extremely feverish
and irritable, tossing about in the hed,
, and raving. The smell from his body
was extdemely offensive. He continued
in this way with little change in the symptoms
until the l(5th, when he expired.
All that could be learned of his previous
history was, that his father was a
laborer and kept a horse, which was said
to be laboring; under a discharge from his
nostrils, the result of cold ; but Dr. Hutton
said that he had not as yet seen the
animal. On examination after death
there was an efTusion of pus discovered
in the left knee-joint. In the thorax
there was a small collection of pus close
to the edge of the left lung. The lung
was of a deep red color, and presented
several ecchymoaed spots on its surface,
and container two small abscesses. The
right lung presented a few flattened tubercles.
These were pointed out to the
attention of the meeting by Dr. Hutton.
The Veterinarian, for September.
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On the UnILAIORAI, OR THREE-QUARTERED
Shoe.
BY e. GABRIEL, ESQ., M. r. C. S. et V. 8.,
LONDON.
The most valuable improvement that
has been made in the art of shoeing in
modern times is most undoubtedly that of
unilateral nailing, introduced by James.
n T'L. tUinn i a
1 timer. 1 IUJ puuuipic UI me unug IS
good, the practice is good, and, as a
matter of course, the result is most valuable.
The principle, however, has not vet
been carried cut to its full extent, and the
object of this paper is to shew the great
desirability that if should be, the great
facility with which it can be done, and
the important: advantages to be derived
therefrom.
I often have been, and I am by no
means sure that I am not at this moment
doubtful whether it isofany consequence
at all as to the manner in which horses
are shod. I have seen every contradiction
of princiole so elaborately worked
out, every means v/hich human stupidity
could adopt to lame animals so seriously
adopted, every care so magnanimously
disregarded, and every carelessness of detail
and unfinished coarseness of workmanship
so reckle.?sly acted on, and all
this, too, backed up by the horses themselves,
as shewn by their working soundly
during the enti re period of their existence,
that 1 could wit ill ray heart sit
down and exclaim, in the style of old Bardolph,
44 A fig for your improvements."
In sober seriousness, however, the facl
is so, both, be it remembered, in town
and country ; and 1 arn perfectly satisfied
that two-thirds of (he horses now in work
are shod with the most utter disregard tc
principle and indifference to workmanship
that the veriett aiti-diffusionist ofknowl?T.iia
tharo ore tilpn.
CUJJC tuuiu UC IIICi 1 IUV| lUbiv Wiv f
ty of cripples, rather a strong minority,
perhaps, as they .vouldsav in the house ;
but still they a re a minority, and when
we come to deduct from them, as I strongly
suspect we must do, the considerable
number operated on by 14 careful smiths,
on the most approved principles/' at veterinary
establishments, guiltless of the
presence of veterinary surgeons, and veterinary
forges," the owners of which, eschewing
the superfluity of letters, and
scorning to be of the accommodating humor
in Bombastes, 44 long cut or short cut,
tis all the same to me." decidedly prefei
short cut, as I noticed a few weeks age
splendidly emblazoned in front of a forge
in town ; but then over entrances hung
golden shoes so tempting that if horses
were not taken there to be shod I much
doubt if they would not go themselves?
why this deduction may, like some other
tails, very probably turn tail,, and prove
ultra-innovatimists, strengthen the argument
against the improved system, and
have the rou^h unwashed (and anv of the
Q * ?
worked?) to lajgh. at the fallibility of ha.
man improvements.
How is all tlis ? I apprehend it is to
be traced to one of these two causes :
first, the principle, when correct, has not
been sufficient y carried out; or, secondly,
it has been attempted to be carried out
by methods not v/ithin the compass of
the generality of working smiths. I believe
many plans have been brought be.
fore the public, the which if their projectors
could porsoinl!y carry them intc
practice, would piove advantageous, bul
which require loo much care and skill tc
be carried out by his workmen; and this
is a fact that should always be borne in
mind, for we have no right to expect the
skill which distinguishes the workers in
silver in the artificers employed in our
forges : simplic ity of detail is, therefore,
an essential ingredient in any plan we
may offer to improve the system of shoeing,
and this is eminently the case with
the unilateral method of nailing?any
workman can carry it out, and therefore
the public have been benefitted by it.
Valuable as this method is, however, it
has not produced all the good which the
principle on which it is founded is capable
of producing; and this I attribute to the
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nrsi cause mentioned, nameiy, mat pmi<
ciple not being fully carried out. I have
now for some time gone one step further,
Instead of unilaterally nailing the com.
mon shoe, I us? ai unilateral shoe?pre
cisely so far as the nails were carricc
round trie inside quarter, so far I carry tiu
shoe, letting it there terminate in a rounded
bevelled edge..
Now, 1 am rot going to smother the
extra step of mine in my own modesty
and bashfully disclaim, either for it 01
myself, any merit that may he due, but declare
at once that I think it a most im
portant step,?one that will overtakeand
conquer all corns and thrushes, sandcracks,
conti actions and navicular?oh,
I am not sure about navicular cases, and
yet I have a good mind to thro* them in,
particularly if they are not so far advanced
that no one step short of a seven leagued
boot can overtake them. As a remedy
for cutting, the value of the three,
quarter shoe has long been known; and
1 believe that in every case where the opposite
plan of thickening the inside hoof
fails, this will succeed. For hunting, I
anticipate'the most results; from its superior
safety, its lessened chance of coming
off, its prevention of slipping, and the
ease with which the foot^can be raised
i from oloiiffhed or heavy cround, will, I
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doubt not, ensure its universal adoption.
Thi* however, remains tohfctwed. I do
really think, therefore, that it is the ne
plus ultra, the scene of perfection in the
art and mystery of horseshoeing.
As to the originality of this step in the
march of improvement, I am afraid that
the less said the better; for I have a sort of
undefined dread hovering over me of havingseen
something about it somewhere;
however, I shall not try to see it. nor shall
I refer to James Turner's, paper, nor anybody
else's paper, fearing I may there
read something like my own bleas. I
therefore at once acknowledge that t do
I t
not recollect, nor will I try to recollect,
anything that anybody has said, sung, or
written on the subject, and so I shall
44 leave myself alone in my glorv."
The only 44 untoward events" I have
met with, are, being obliged to give it up
in two cases, and have recourse to felt
. shoes and leathers, and in meeting with
an anticipation, which happened thus: I
had occasion to wait some little time at a
coachmaker's in Stoke Newington, while
a false step was being replaced to my
j chaise, when a respectable old man. a retired
smith, came into the yard?a retired
shoeing smith remember. Of course, we
had a little professional chat. I asked
' him if he did not use to doctor a little as
well as shoe ? 44 No," he replied ; 441
know nothing about it, and never preten
ded to it, for I had as much work as 1
could do without it." fie was notheor:
ist therefore ; for what theorist ever made
a fortune in this world, however clevei
he might be ? He may, indeed, have laic
: the foundation for man's fortune, but a:
1 to making his own?bah! Well, in the
fulness of my heart 1 could not help tellinc
him of my important step. 44 Yes
1 sir," was his reply; it is a very good one
) and particularly for fiat feet; it gets the
1 heels up so strong. It is now a boil
twelve years ago that I recommended t
> gentleman, whose horse had large fla
! feet, and was always going lame, to have
1 him shod with three-quarter shoes ; he a'
greed to it, and I shod him so up to the
1 time of my giving up business, and he nev.
' er wont lame after." I'll be hanged if
I knew whether to laugh or to cry, to be
! pleased or vexed with this desperate fore
staller, who had not only taken the step
f *_l.: L..I- k./j fnlrun if with Mllfrh
1 WHS IHItlllg, iiui linw lo.nbii ? ?
1 a desperate stride, that he walked into
eases I never thought of; so that, it
- there were no written documents to refer
to. I was at once convicted of non-origin
alty, or as a sailor would say, of " catch1
ingacrab."
It is now more than a twelvemonth
1 since I commenced this mode of shoeing
1 The first subject was a light post mare,
' with two of the worst corns I ever saw.
> ii 1 1 -:?u on,]
sue nua ocen suou wim I1CI iJiima
1 leathers the preceeding two years, and in
' spite of every care that could be taken,
was almost constantiy lamo. I at once
1 left off the bar shoes and leathers, and
1 put on a pair of unlateral shoes, pnriny
the parts of the feet to be covered by the
1 shoe, but leaving the inside-quarter un.
: touched. The shoes and nails were precisely
the same as would have been else
? used with the inside thirds cut off and the
[ I ends rounded and hovelled away. She
never went lame from the day she was sc
' shod to the day of her death, which was
' occasioned by an accident nine months
' after. "On this hint I worked," ant1
' with the exception of the two cases before
E alluded to. where the heels were weak
' and the soles thin, but which I am persua
1 ded would have done, a little more time, I
1 have not met with a single annoyance.
' Posters, stagers, carters, hacks, and chaist
hppn subjected to the same
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process since, and all with uniform success,
Oh, but the crust will break away, the
heel will he worn thin, the foot will he
' i come tender, and the horse will he lame
1 | Will he ? If you want to see a brittle
I crusted, thin-heeled, thrushy-frogged fool
! I converted into one with a tough, elastic
i .
crust, a firm springy heel, and a frog like
;n piece of India-rubber, shoe with the
! j three-quarter shoe, and I will answer foi
| the transformation. The growth of horr
f I on the exposed part of the foot is extraor
' I dinarv. for in the course of a single shoe
~ J '
5 ing the sole will not only not be worn
* thin, but have become so thick and firm
' that more horn might be removed there
" j from than from that part of the foot pre
' I tected by the shoe. I merely, however
Jj leave it level with the crust. The out
i side heel should be kept rather low, to al
low for the thickness of the shoe, and the
' heels opened or not, as may He consideree
?j most desirable. In old horses I hnvi
r 1 them well opened, but in young ones! nl
' j low them to remain undisturbed ; in eith
' i er case the paring of the frog should be li
I mitted to its J)eing cleared from 11 shreds
1 and patches." I am not aware that
there are any other directions necessary,
nor are any precautious required, with
the exception perhaps, of avoiding, as
much as may be, the /YfcAriamized stones,
for a day or two, on its tirst adoption.
One circumstance should not be overlooked;
in several cases bad corns in the
inside heel have been entirely got rid oi;
but they have been produced on the outside
heel, so much so, as to-require some
care in preparing that part of the foot.
In point of principle,?so far as relates
tothe natural functions of the foot, which
natural fu nctions I presume every one
understands, or, at any rate, every one
pretends to understand, .which, doubtless,
"answers the same purpoae?this shoe is
most valuable ; for whether the most important
object be I'rog-pressure descent of
the sole, expansion of the quarters, or
unfettered plav for the cartilages?whether
it be the one or the other of these, as
some assert, or their combined action, as
others most rationally maintain, no shoe
that has ever been had recourse to admits
! of their being carried on with such entire
freedom as this. Every shoe, however
well applied, enriches the bottom of the
foot, subjects it to one uniform artificial
pressure?hearing always exactly on the
same surface?applied equally to the most
elastic and to the more fixed points of
support?not allowing one part to catch
the weight at one time and another at the
other?not relieving the highly elastic
inside quarter fr<>m pressure
for, perhaps, some steps following, and
then, when receiving it, admitting of it*
action with unlimited freedom?bruising,
irritating, and, in many cases, entirely
altering the structure of the sole at the inner
angle of the foot. Every shoe, I re.
peat, that has ever been used, is liable to
all these objections, except the threequarter
one. which having the inner third
of the foot perfectly free, and still afffording
it sufficient protection to e/iabJe t *
t it to meet all demands made on it, effect*
" a consummation devoutly to be wished."
[ In conclusion, I would *av, that I
think this sysi? m of shoeing may be at
dopted to a verv considerable extent;
-?/l cksxiiM it nrtt Ka fnnnH It, dfi all th:it
I IIIIU 3IIVUIU II uu< uv ... ....
I inay (unreasonably ?) be expo ted of It,
J or should, it, in some few cases, be mis.
' applied, it has this valuable negative ad,r
vantage, that it can do no possible har-n.
, Should, however, my Stake Newingion
, ally prove to bp right, and his thin ti.it
feet, us well as mv narrow strong out s,
t bear this 44 shameless exposure," so that
i we may at once44 put this and that to.
I gethor," why, then. I should not hesitate
s a moment in going the44 whole hog," a id
declaring that of all the shoes wherewith
! horses are shod, the unilateral, or to
speak less learnedly (if one may venture
to do so without the fear of our friends
and patrons becoming shoeingsmiths as
well as horse-doctors) the old three quar
ter shoe is without the chance of excepi
rion, the possibility of competition, or the
1 fear of contradiction, the very shoe with
r which u horse can he shod. But (and
let this be considered as the postscript, in
which, as is not uncommon, all that is
worth reading is written) having some
! doubts, oral any rare, noi navmg ?p?v
i J proofsof its universal applicability, I am
,r content to claim for it the advantage of
i being applicable in a vast number of cases,
in which horses go tender and feeling
in common shoes : how far it may pre.
i vent, as well as ameliorate, those cases, it
> remains for a more lengthened experi
ence to decide. The Veterinarian (Loiu
I don) for September.
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H0B5E SHOEING.
My Dear Sir,?I observed in the last
Planter an article upon horse shoes, that
' puts me in m.nd of a circumstance from
* which I derived a good deal of fieneht,
' and which I will relate for the good of
') your readers.
* | I happened, several years ago, to be at
| the blacksmith shop where I get my work
done, when an old gentleman of the
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, neighborhood rode up, accompanied oy a
; negro man with several horses, who want.
[ 1 ed shoeing. The smith had been lately
i introduced into the neighborhood and had
? great reputation. I offered to defer to
> j the old gentleman, although he was the
. j last coiner, but he was too managing for
i that; he insisted upon it that I should
have my horse shod while he looked on.
Accoidingly, the smith proceeded with
' his operations. The old man seemed to
[ j he pretty well satisfied, until the smith,
having fitted -the shoe and driven the
5 '
first nail, began to twist the end off.?
| This he protested against, and by ocular
( demonstration, showed the difference l>etween
wringing the nail otfanc. breaking
. it by bending backwards and forwards*
t In the former case, the part of the nail in
, the hoof is twisted, and a round hole i*
. cut, which is filled only with its own
dust: no wonder the nail in such a hole
i would soon work loose, .uureovrr, m
twisting the nail, the corner edge is fre
quently presented to the hoof, and does
J not clinch half as well. From that time
' to this, I have never permitted my smith
51 to "wring a nail," and I assure you I have
" | found my profit in it.
! This to ha sure is a small matter, bat
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