Excerpt from The Horse's Foot, and How to Keep It Sound: With Illustrations I have been induced at the solicitation of several friends, who have deplored to me their total want of anything like useful, or practical knowledge upon the subject of shoeing, to embody for their guidance some rough notes, which I had made upon soundness of the horse's foot in general, and on shoeing in particular. In offering them to the public I beg to premise, that I have not the smallest intention of, what is called, writing a book, least of all a scientific book. My sole object is to communicate in the most familiar language, the subject will admit Of, the result of several years' Observa tion, and of much tedious experiment, undertaken with a View of ascertaining, what mode of shoeing, system Of stabling, and quantity of exercise, promised the fairest prospect of pre serving the foot of the horse in soundness and comfort to himself, and usefulness to his owner for the longest period. 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.