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 ¿attering 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.