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 224 I think this plan a very good one where the horse owner has not much work pressing, as is the case with most Irish farmers at this time of year.

Perhaps in the next generation people will begin to see that 'Nature beats Art.’ Co. Armagh, June 29.

Three gentlemen, as will be seen, have given their experience of doing away with the ordinary full shoe—one of them has used an ordinary tip, and another the Charlier tip, and both of these without losing any work from their horses: whilst the third has at once done away with all iron, with only the precaution of not overworking his horses from the outset. They have all succeeded, and are satisfied that they have conferred a great benefit upon their horses.

London, August 1880.