Excerpt from Plain Treatise on Horse-Shoeing: With Illustrations It has been suggested to me, by several correspondents, that a plain, practical treatise on HorseShoeing, divested of all other matters, connected with the soundness of the horses foot, would be very acceptable to many working smiths, who have neither the time nor the inclination to wade through a work where what they want to find is mixed up with other matters, which do not bear upon their vocation. To the production of such a treatise I now set myself, in the hope that, however much I may fall short of my wishes, I may still in some degree supply a want which has long been felt by many. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.