Excerpt from A Treatise on Horse-Shoeing and LamenessThe importance of horse-shoeing to the State and the public is exactly proportionate to the services rendered by horses; since, without the art for the conservation of their feet, all other cares bestowed on the production and perfection of breed must be of little avail.The whole question, however, is of a relative character, and comparisons, not always flattering and welcome, are necessary, in order to carry out successfully the investigation which I deem it necessary to undertake.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.