TO HORSE OWNERS. 



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TO HORSE OWNERS. 



All must admit that we live in an age of improvements; and that we 

 enjoy what our forefathers never even dreamed of— in the fast and easy 

 transportation, rapid communication from continent to continent, and 

 the use of the hundreds of labor saving machines ; and yet before or 

 even when these great discoveries were first made known to the public 

 how many there were (like Thomas) who doubted: but "time will 

 prove all things," and so it has been with all these inventions which 

 were once said to be impossibilities, for now we know them to be of 

 the great value which their originators claimed for them. 



In the year 1875 it was claimed by the publisher of this book, that he 

 had discovered a combination of remedies which would cure bone 

 spavins and remove the enlargement without blistering or causing any 

 sore. Like all other discoveries this too was scouted at when first an- 

 nounced to the public, and, as might naturally have been expected, by 



