Then it may be asked, what is the cause of so many lame 

 horses? The most prolific cause is unskillfull shoeing. 

 Men are often lured into shops through fake advertising 

 where blacksmiths offer to shoe at a bargain. 



Let me say this to the horse loving public, you ought 

 to realize that your horseshoer with whom you have been 

 dealing and has given you satisfaction and is in business to 

 stay and is honest with you because you are paying him a 

 fair price. He is not just shoeing your horses for what 

 profit he gets out of it, he tries to please you, to satisfy 

 you, he wants to keep you as a customer and you can well 

 afford to pay him some extra for mistakes he doesn't make. 

 Look out for those smiths that advertise to shoe horses for 

 less than cost, or at figures much below the price of true 

 horse shoers. Such horseshoers belong in a class with men 

 that sell fake articles. Let me repeat, look out for him. 

 But I know some people don't see anything but this, known 

 as the Almighty Dollar, and, I would much rather be their 

 pocket book than their horse, because they take better 

 care of it. They are too stingy to say the Lord's Prayer 

 for fear the Lord would have forgotten to give them credit 

 when they come to settle up. They are so sharp and so 

 cute for the favor you wish to do them, they rather refuse 

 in hope that they get the difference in cash. Let me re- 

 peat, as to horse shoeing, the best is the cheapest, and don't 

 forget that. There is another ailment that is a drawback to 

 horse, shoeing, that is horse owners often have some cruel 

 notions and dictate to the shoer how he wants his horse 

 shod. If these same men would clean their horse's feet 

 every evening after a day's work instead of engineering the 

 shoeing, that would be of some benefit for both men and 

 horse. We should only try and be what w r e are able to be, 

 and don't pretend to be something that we are not. En- 

 gineering horseshoeing without knowing what it means to 

 the foot or the part above is an everlasting damage to the 

 horse, for that same man could probably not describe the 



37 



