Excerpt from A d104-Book of Horseshoeing: For Horseshoers and Veterinarians The inauguration of the law requiring horseshoers to be examined emphasizes the need of a brief and easily understood text-book on theoretical and practical horseshoeing. At the request of the Royal Veterinary Commission in charge of the Royal Veterinary School in Dresden, and many interested individuals, I have attempted to meet this need by condensing within the narrowest possible limits all that is essential to the horseshoer in the practice of his profession. The subject-matter has been cast into a logically arranged course of instruction; all that is superfluous and is found only in exhaustive treatises on shoeing has been omitted. In order to make this elementary text-book more easy to understand, numerous instructive illustrations have been incorporated, which were taken partly from "Der Fuss des Pferdes," by Leisering & Hartmann, fifth edition, Dresden, 1882; partly from the journal Der Hufschmied, and partly from drawings made specially for this work. With the desire that this little book may find many friends and supply them with valuable information, it is herewith given to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.