4: INTRODUCTION. 



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 progress 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. 



