Horse and man, their mutual dependence and duties by Wood J. G. (John George) 1827-1889

Author:Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Horses
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

taxes Mr. Baker with irreligion. ' Did not He who formed the horse most surely intend that we should live by one another ; and is it not civilisation that brought about industry of every description ; and did not He who ordereth all things put it into the heart of man to study what could be done to protect the feet of that useful animal the horse ?'

Which argument, being reduced to its elements, means that the Creator made the horse's hoof unable to do its work, so that farriers might gain a living by nailing iron shoes upon it. As I can scarcely expect any reader to believe that such fatuous nonsense could be put forward as arguments, I must refer him to the < North Devon Journal' of May 11,1882.

There is now before me a cast of the off-fore hoof of this very animal which was benighted and irreligious enough to do its work without shoes when the professional shoer said that it could not work unshod; or that, if it did, it was flying in the face of Providence. The cast was taken in December 1882— i.e. eight months after the letter was written.

In spite of the high lineage of the animal, the hoof is not a first-rate one, the slope being too great. From heel to heel the circumference of the wall is thirteen inches ; from heel to toe it measures five and a quarter inches, and across the quarters it is a trifle more than four inches.

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