Vin DEDICATION, 



manufacture such a shoe, it could obviously 

 be only made by good workmen, and would 

 necessarily be sold at a higher price, than one 

 in the making of which less labour and skill 

 were employed. And farther, it would na- 

 turally lead a workman, in all instances, to 

 recommend and adopt such a shoe as he 

 could make with the greatest ease and profit ; 

 and to decry such as it was beyond his 

 power, or incompatible with his profit, to 

 manufacture. Now, unfortunately, it ap- 

 peared, that the shoe which afforded the 

 prospect of becoming the most extensively 

 useful, required much accuracy of work- 

 manship, and was therefore liable to the 

 objections just adduced. 



The probable employment of such a shoe 

 was so limited, as to promise little benefit to 

 the public at large, or little advancement to 

 this branch of science. It seemed essential, 

 to reconcile the. interest of the farrier with 

 that of the public; and this appeared only, 

 attainable by improving the art of manufac-^ 



