IV PREFACE. 



up as a censor of practices which have been found to 

 result satisfactorily in some hands, if not in all. 



Each reader should judge for himself of the practica- 

 bility of any given method before adopting it. 



So many ways of accomplishing the same result are 

 offered that it is confidently felt that at least one or more 

 may be found to fit almost every conceivable case. 

 Without desiring to disparage any other work on the 

 same subject, the Editor feels that the present volume 

 will be found invaluable to every man who shoes horses, 

 wholly or in part, for a living. 



Not by any means the least valuable feature of the 



present volume, will be found the numerous tools for 



horseshoers as well as devices for controlling unruly 



horses. 



The Editor. 



