A TREATISE 



ON- 



THE ART OF SHOEING HORSES 



INTRODUCTION. 



This is a plain, unvarnished and practical treatise on 

 the art of balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses, 

 unclouded by little known technical and scientific words 

 and phrases, but written by the author, Wm. J. Moore:, in 

 his own every day words that can be easily understood by 

 any horseman. 



Mr. Moore, who has spent his life in the business of 

 horse shoeing, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, 

 and later had charge of the Horse Shoeing Department 

 of the Allen Farm at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for a period 

 of over twenty years, and he is still so engaged at Allen 

 Farm. 



Mr. Moore's experience as a horse shoer dates from 

 the time when he commenced work in a horse shoeing shop 

 as an apprentice, at the age of 16 years. Since which time 

 horse shoeing has been his sole occupation. 



During this period of 35 years Mr. Moore has shod 

 many noted trotting and pacing horses, and his long, varied 

 and successful experience justifies the belief that no one is 

 better qualified to write on this subject, and to offer advice 



