INTRODUCTIOiN" TO SIXTH EDITION. 



Since tlie publication of the Fifth Edition of my Treatise 

 on Scientific Horseshoeing so many additional cases have come 

 to my attention I have concluded to embody them with co- 

 pious illustrations in a complete final work, to embrace 

 all the important matter contained in the First, Second, 

 Third, Fourth, and Fifth Editions. I find that the farrier has 

 become one of the progressives of modern science ; as time 

 changes almost everything changes. I find there have been 

 great changes made in the speed of horses. My experience 

 has been that as the horse increases in speed he quickens his 

 evolution. There are scarcely two speed horses shaped or 

 gaited alike, consequently no two can be shod alike and do 

 their work with equal ease and comfort to themselves. The 

 style and weight of shoes that would suit one horse would not 

 be suitable for another. This fact has led me to invent and 

 make many different styles and . weight of shoes for speed 

 horses. As I have so often said, no one man knows it all. 

 Tlie close observers never finish learning in horsehoeing. The 

 farriers can get good ideas from one another. I have traveled 

 for the past twenty years, and shod horses in every state in 

 the Union. Shod all grades of horses, from the ponderous 

 Norman to the fleet-footed, thoroughbred race horse. I have 

 talked with all the expert farriers, horsemen, trainers, and 

 drivers on the subject of the different gaits of horses and the 



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