FREDERICK J. DRAKE & CO.
211-213 E. Madison St., Chicago.
Scientific Horse, Mule and Ox Shoeing
By J. G. Holmstrom,
Author of Modern Blacksmithing
A standard treatise, adapted to the demand of Veterinarians, Farriers and the Amateur Horseshoer. Illustrated. The book is concisely written; no long articles over the experiments of others, but gives the best methods known up to date.
Although there are principles laid down in the book that will stand so long as the horse is a horse, the author does not lay any claim to infalibility
or perfection; he has simply laid a foundation upon which the ironer of horses’ feet may build and develop a perfect structure.
Among some of the valuable contents are:—
- Anatomy of the Foot.
- The Shoe and How to Make it.
- Right and Wrong Filling.
- How to Nail the Shoe.
- How to Fit and Recalk Old Shoes.
- Interfering.
- Preparing the Foot for Shoeing.
- Shoeing a Trotter.
- Mule Shoeing.
- Ox Shoeing.
- Diseases of the Horse.
- Hot and Cold Fitting.
- How to Shoe Vicious Horses.
- Kneesprung.
- Stringhalt.
- Contraction.
- Sand Cracks, etc., etc.
Many of the fine illustrations used are reproduced by permission from books issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture.