PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



The inauguration of the law requiring liorseshoers to be ex- 

 amined emphasizes the need of a brief and easily understood 

 text-book on theoretical and practical horseshoeing. At the re- 

 quest of the Royal Veterinary Commission, in charge of the 

 Royal Veterinary School in Dresden, and many interested in- 

 dividuals, I have attempted to meet this need by condensing 

 within the narrowest possible limits all that is essential to the 

 horseshoer in the practice of his profession. The subject-matter 

 has been cast into a logically arranged course of instruction ; all 

 that is superfluous and is found only in exhaustive treatises on 

 shoeing has been omitted. 



In order to make this elementary text-book more easy to 

 understand, numerous instructive illustrations have been incor- 

 porated, which were taken partly from " Der Fuss des Pferdes," 

 by Leisering & Hartmann, fifth edition, Dresden, 1882 ; partly 

 from the journal Der Hufschmied, and partly from drawings 

 made specially for this work. 



With the desire that this little book may find many friends 

 and supply them with valuable information, it is herewith given 

 to the public. 



A. LUNGWITZ. 



f, September, 1884. 



