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true in exceptional cases, the charge containing merely truth 
enough to give argument, and in the past the charge was truer 
than it is to-day, but the truth is recognized by the National 
Horse-shoers Protective Association, and to remedy this they 
have provided for an apprenticeship system, and one of the 
qualifications is that he shall have at least a common school 
education, because out of the educated apprentice can be made 
the intelligent and scientific horse-shoer of the future. Some¬ 
times the horse-shoer has charged the loss of trade to the veter¬ 
inarian, and this is not always unjustly done. 
The veterinarian has reason to complain of the charges of 
incompetency made by the horse-shoer often entirely without 
cause and done for fear of losing the customer, which mode of 
doing business by either party is not calculated to create a 
friendly feeling or closer relationship between the horse-shoer 
and veterinarian, but with increased knowledge on the part of 
the horse-shoer all these conditions will be much changed. 
When the horse-shoer has come to understand more of the 
anatomy and physiology and functions of the muscles and ten¬ 
dons of the horse’s foot and leg he will be better qualified to 
study and understand the law of mechanics governing the horse 
when in rapid action. Each has enough to perfect himself in 
his own individual field, and when the horse-shoer becomes edu¬ 
cated he ceases to be a quack. For quacks certainly exist in 
the horse-shoeing business as well as in the veterinary. It is a 
well-known fact, one complained of by the master horse-shoers, 
who have served a number of years of time to learn their trade, 
and spent considerable time in the study of the interest of the 
business to be compelled to meet the unscrupulous quack veter¬ 
inarian, who will go out of his way to discover some fault in the 
manner the horse has been shod and use his profession as a vet¬ 
erinarian to persuade the owner to transfer his horse-shoeing ta 
the shop of the veterinary quack. This kind of business is 
frowned upon by the veterinary profession and by the regular 
master horse-shoer, whether it be by the veterinary quack or by 
the horse-shoer quack ; both are detrimental and many owners. 
