X'ivf OBLIGATIONS TO APPRENTICES. 



and will likt'wisp find out th(^ man who is a bungler and experi- 

 menter. In ih'uri way all the cobblers in the city who cripple and 

 injure horses may be listed, and could ))e driven out of the 

 business, being no longer permitted to cripple and indict suffering 

 upon man's best friend — the horse. 



Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. A thing 

 half done would I)e better not done at nil. My experience is that 

 a horse well shod is twice shod. Th" man who is successful in his 

 Inisiness is the man who gives strict attenlion to his business. 

 The horseshoer who would succeed is compelh'd to give the same 

 attention to his qualifications as is required of the bookkeeper or 

 the physician. Nature will not compromise with us in anyway. 

 If we violate her laws, as incorporated in the foot of the horse, she 

 will exact her penalty. Damage to the foot or h'g requires valu- 

 able time at least for repair. There nuiy be recovery, and, in 

 some cases, perfect restoration. But ignorant treatment of the 

 horse's foot involves great risk. 



The law will not excuse ignorance, negligence or malicious- 

 ness. Whenever a horse is brought to a shop to he shod, the 

 master of that shop is liable, under the law. for all injuries tlie 

 horse may receiv(3 there. Tf the horse is made lame by an igno- 

 rant, incompetent shoer, the master farrier is held liable for dam- 

 age under the law : the same is true if he is lame through careless- 

 ness on the part of the shoer; is likewise liable if the shoer ma- 

 liciously and willfully injures the horse out of spite and hatred 

 to the owner or to the master of the shop. 



For the reasons just named, it is to the interest of every master 

 horseshoer to employ only the ])est skilled and scientific journey- 

 men, and we ought to co-operate to drive all the cobblers and 

 amateurs out of the business. A good, careful, scientific shoer, 

 who works for the interest of his employer, is cheap at any reason- 

 able wages, while a half-way cobbler is a dear man at any price. 

 My custom has always been to hire the ]:)est men going, regardless 

 of wages. No man who shoes horses can retain a reputation as a 

 skillful, competent farrier, save by shoeing horses in a workman- 



