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Excerpt from The Practical Farrier, for Farmers: Comprising a General Description of the Noble and Useful Animal, the Horse; With Modes of Management in All Cases, and Treatment in Disease
Few subjects can more justly claim the attention of the public, than that noble and useful animal. The horse; and there are few indeed of any moment, that have met with more neglect from society. Not more than one or two authors in the United States have turned their attention to this interesting subject. This neglect, in which everyindividual is so deeply interested, must have proceeded from the low standing in society to which the horse has been sunk by men destitute oi veracity, too often having the opportunity of dealing in those invaluable animals, committing. Frauds, making false statements of age, gaits, condition, &c. To the injury of those who are unfortunate enough to confide in their assertions, or to deal with them.
In this little work, whose size is calculated for the pocket, i shall endeavour to guard the unsuspecting against the arts of the jockey, and to point out so plainly the difference between an elegant and a common horse a good and bad horse, a sound and an unsound horse that any person may become a tolerable judge, by reading this little book with attention, however unfa miliar the subject may have been heretofore. It firs my object to be useful rather than offend, or appear learned. I shall avoid all hard names, technical terms.
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