6 INTRODUCTION. 



From there he went to Baltimore, where he succeeded in 

 g-etting- a position in one of the best shops in that city. 

 Being" anxious to learn all he could in regard to horse-shoe- 

 ing he worked for three dollars a week, and paid three dol- 

 lars and a half a week for his board, but while working in 

 this shop he made rapid advances in the art of horse-shoe- 

 ing. 



By a happy circumstance he made the acquaintance of 

 Profs. Rockwell and Hurlburt, the former the inventor of 

 the celebrated Rockwell Bit. Both these gentlemen were 

 expert horse trainers. Mr. Rich worked for them for fifty 

 cents a day. He had shod horses then for about ten years, 

 but notwithstanding all this experience he could only make 

 one kind of shoe, and fully realized that he had a great deal 

 yet to learn about horse-shoeing*. 



When Mr. Rich first began work for Rockwell and Hurl- 

 burt they insisted upon his studying the anatomy and 

 structure of the horse's foot, claiming that he could not 

 shoe horses properly without understanding all about the 

 foot he was manipulating. Of course it was very hard 

 work, and he thought it more of a nuisance than anything 

 else, but Prof. Rockwell insisted that he would not be fit to 

 shoe a horse until he had mastered all these points. Be- 

 fore he left Mr. Rockwell he was getting three dollars a 

 day, which was quite an improvement over the fifty cents a 

 day with which he had started. 



Mr. Rockwell taught him how to make quite a number of 

 different kinds of shoes for different diseases of the foot. 

 He has kept adding to these, for different purposes, until 

 now he makes fifty-three different kinds of shoes, each one 



