Facts About Horses

A writer in the New York Heraid States some facts about how horaes ; should be shod, which are worthy the consideration of blacksmiths and ! ers as well: Most of the horse-shoers of the country prepare the foot, ñt a shoe, and secure it to the hoof in the saaie manner that a wood-butcher fits a shoe I to an old wood ox-sled. The j ism of a horse's hoof is one of the most j wonderf ui and ingenieus struetures that can be found in all the works of the Creator. Beneath and in the rear of j ery hoof therc is a frog, which is a tough and elastic pad for preventing injury to the animal whenever he planta bus foot suddenly on any hard subsfcance. Large rolls of cylinders of India-rubber are placed beneath railroad cars to prevent in jury to any part of the car or to the cargo with which it is loaded. The frog beneath the foot of a horse is designad to subserve a similar parpóse. But the manner in which most horses are shod lifts tiiem up, as it were, on short stilts, bo that the frog oannot perform its apbropriate i'unctions. If we look carei'ully at the yonng horso when he is trotting or running, it will be perceived that eyery foot is brought down to theground in such a manner that the frog receives the powcrful blow. By this meana all iujury to the animal is prevented. Science teaches us to permit tho frog to develop and expand dowuward. Hut most blacksmiths seem to think that the Allwise Creator made a great mistake when he formed tho hoofs of liorses. Henee, they fall at the frog with red-hot bnrning irons, with edge tools, and with any ! other appliance that will enable them to remove this extraneons excrescence. IIlustrious niimies ! Why not shavo and biini away all the tough, callons adipose tissne beneath their own heels, and low the bare bones to rest on a píate of iron inaide of their own boots and shoes ?