PREFACE TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION.
Since the publication in 1904 of a translation of the tenth edition of Der Lehrmeister im Hufbeschlag, Prof. Anton Lungwitz, the author, having reached the age of retirement has withdrawn from the activities of the Royal Saxon Shoeing School, and has expressed a desire that the translator assume entire responsibility for future editions.
To note the progress of farriery during the past ten years many chapters have been revised, necessitating resetting, and sixty-nine new illustrations have been added and many redrawn. It has seemed desirable to discuss the effect of weight in the shoe in altering the flight of the foot; to consider rubber pads so widely used in the United States, and to direct attention to many innovations of more or less value, that have appeared during recent years.
In preparing this edition I have had the cordial co-operation of the publishers, to whom I hereby express deepest gratitude. I wish also to record my appreciation for the many suggestions and other aid given me by Mr. Franz Enge, Chief Farrier of the shoeing shop of the Veterinary Hospital, University of Pennsylvania.
John W. Adams.
University of Pennsylvania, April, 1913.