THE VETERINARIAN AND THE HORSE-SHOER. 
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orable body on the subject of the relation of the horse-shoer to 
the veterinarian from a horse-shoer’s standpoint, I did so solely 
for the purpose of doing what I could to further a good cause, 
namely, the education of the horse-shoer along a line heretofore 
almost entirely neglected both by the colleges and the horse- 
shoers themselves in the study of anatomy, physiology and 
locomotion, the horse-shoer not being entirely to blame for the 
condition of the craft, because as the veterinary science pertain¬ 
ing to the preventive as well as the curative, in considerino- the 
; condition of the horse, did not deal with the matter of horse- 
^ shoeing, and the art of shoeing was lost sight of very largely by 
the veterinary except so far as it came to his knowledge in the 
actual every-day practice of his profession, and the horse-shoer 
either did not realize or did not care, but was content to work 
along in the same old rut as others had done before him, with- 
V out making the progress that was easily within his reach if he 
.^5 had but made the effort to obtain it. This condition of affairs 
existed until some of the craft saw the necessity of an advance, 
; and a chance for the betterment of conditions was recoo'nized 
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V by some of the more progressive horse-shoers, and found ex- 
( pression at the Horse-shoers’ Convention, held in Chicao-o in 
^ appointment of a committee of three veterinary 
r horse-shoers, graduates of regular veterinary colleges, men who 
had served the time and had learned the horse-shoeing business, 
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and thus were qualified to better understand the needs of the 
craft, whose duty it was to devise ways for the education of the 
, craft, and call out or create a written expression of the best 
^ methods of shoeing the horse, and how well their work has 
I been done is evidenced by the fact that schools of varied char- 
;; acter have been established and carried on in a number of our 
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^ largest cities, and the character of the papers written and pub- 
lished in our official journal, and in a souvenir published by 
3 Detroit local No. 3, Master Horse-shoers, containing instructive 
q papers upon many subjects pertaining to horse-shoeing, and also 
in a souvenir published by local No. 39 of New York City, 
^ there are articles of the same class and character upon similar 
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