4: INTRODTJCTIOT^. 



America, England, and France in the matter; 

 and, at the time of this publication, thousands 

 of horses, engaged in the most arduous labors 

 of equine life — upon railways, express wagons, 

 transfer companies, and other similar difficult 

 positions — are traveling upon our shoes, their 

 labors lightened by its assistance, their feet 

 preserved in a natural, healthy state, and their 

 lives prolonged to the profit of their owners 

 and the advancement of that cause— -one of 

 the evidences of the i^rogress of our age in 

 true enlightenment — which has for its benefi- 

 cent object the prevention of cruelty to the 

 dumb and helpless companions of our toil. 



