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but unfortunately not until confidence in the value of the 

 Company's certificate luul been lost. This is the more un- 

 fortunate, as it must, for many years to come, have a most 

 prejudicial efiect on any effort made to improve the farrier's 

 art in England. 



Considering the scope and difficulties of the art of shoeing, 

 it is desirable that the efforts made during the last fifteen years 

 by the Eoyal Agricultural Society and other bodies to produce 

 good practical and theoretical farriers should be still further 

 extended, so that the workman may fit and apply the shoe 

 with knowledge of the etiect it will produce on the foot and 

 limb. Without awarding the preference to any particular 

 system of shoeing, it may be said that that most deserves it 

 which least alters the condition and form of the hoof, which 

 is simplest, and which adapts itself most readily to varying 

 requirements. 



