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PREFIX.
Since the publication of this little volume we have made changes in ourhorse shoe with a view to adapt it especially to Army use. Our designhas been to make a shoe that any Army farrier can apply in a cold statewithout the use of any other tool than a knife to prepare the hoof, anda hammer to drive the nails. Our success in this attempt has been socomplete that we are now using the pattern designed especially for Armyuse in all our contract work.
The shoe is rolled without a heel calk, so that the frog-pressure may bereadily secured without heating and drawing the iron:—the nail holesare punched so that the nail furnished by us with the shoe may bedriven, without the use of the pritchel to punch out the holes. Theshoe, being made of the best quality of iron, may be bent cold to adaptit to the shape of the hoof.
Officers will at once see what a vast saving there is in thetransportation of shoes—requiring no forge with its heavy outfit—andwhich are less than half the weight of the clumsy old patterns.
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
RATIONAL
Horse-Shoeing.
BY
WILDAIR.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY WYNKOOP AND HALLENBECK,
No. 113 Fulton Street.
1873.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by
WYNKOOP & HALLENBECK,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
INTRODUCTION.
In presenting the observations contained in the following pages, we areaware that we appeal to practical men who judge by results, and have butslight patience with mere theory. We wish, therefore, to state clearlyat the outset, that the system of horse-shoeing herein advocated, andthe shoe offered by us to accompany it and accomplish its purpose, arethe result of years of patient study of nature, and actual experiment;and that although we have had to contend with ignora