Excerpt from An Essay on the Veterinary Art: Setting Forth Its Great Usefulness, Giving an Account of the Veterinary Colleges in France and England, and Exhibiting the Facility and Utility of Instituting Similar Schools in the United States; To Which Is Added, a Few Hints Upon the Propriety of Conne One object of a Veterinary College is to encourage the intro duction of useful animals into the country; another is the proper crossing of breeds already possessed; to which, it is well known that too little attention has hitherto been paid. The Veterinary art also purports to teach the producing, rear ing and feeding each class and breed of domestic animals, accord ing to the most approved methods practiced in foreign countries, and there founded upon the union of science and experience. It is hardly possible to convey to the minds of those who have not travelled, and who have not paid particular attention to this part of the subject, an adequate impression of our deficiencies. The breaking. Educating, training and fattening of domestic animals, form the next and by no means inconsiderable items ofin struction. It has often been remarked by foreigners, (and the remark is by no means unjust) that too little attention is almost every where in the United States paid to the breaking of horses. This important operation is generally left in the hands of unskil ful persons, -men who have no scientific and very little practical knowledge of the subject; the consequences are that these ani mals are badly broke, perhaps contract vicious habits - they are rendered less useful all their lives, and not unfrequently serious accidents occur, sometimes attended with the loss of the limbs or even the lives of valuable citizens. The more our cities increase in population, and the greater the number of rail roads by which our country is traversed, the more necessary will it become that our cattle should be well broke, and hence the introduction into the United States of a College, where the art of breaking them will be taught, cannot fail to be productive of encreasing good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.