PREFACE TO THE ELEVENTH 

 EDITION. 



Since the publication in 1904 of a translation of the tentli 

 edition of Der Lehrmeister im Hufbesclilag, Prof. Anton Liing- 

 witz, the author, having reached the age of retirement has with- 

 drawn from the activities of the Royal Saxon Shoeing School, 

 and has expressed a desire that the translator assume entire 

 responsibility for future editions. 



To note the progress of farrierv during the past ten years 

 many chapters have been revised, necessitating resetting, and 

 sixty-nine new illustrations have been added and many re- 

 drawn. It has seemed desirable to discuss the effect of weight 

 in the shoe in altering the flight of the foot ; to consider rubber 

 pads so widely used in the United States, and to direct attention 

 to many innovations of more or less value, that hiave appeared 

 during recent years. 



In preparing this edition I have had the cordial co-operation 

 of the publishers, to whom I hereby express deepest gratitude. 

 I wish also to record my appreciation for the many suggestions 

 and other aid given me by Mr. Franz Enge, Chief Farrier of 

 the shoeing shop of the Veterinary Hospital, University of 

 Pennsylvania. Joh:^ W. Adams. 



University of Pennsylvania, April. 1913. 



