Balancing and Shoeing Trotting and Pacing Horses

by William J. Moore

Copyright 1916, by Wm. J. Moore

ALLEN FARM BLACKSMITH SHOP—KREMLIN 2:07¾, Age 29.
Robt. Shankland W. J. Moore

A TREATISE

—ON—

THE ART OF SHOEING HORSES

INTRODUCTION.

This is a plain, unvarnished and practical treatise on the art of balancing and shoeing trotting and pacing horses, unclouded by little known technical and scientific words and phrases, but written by the author, Wm. J. Moore, in his own every day words that can be easily understood by any horseman.

Mr. Moore, who has spent his life in the business of horse shoeing, was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, and later had charge of the Horse Shoeing Department of the Allen Farm at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for a period of over twenty years, and he is still so engaged at Allen Farm.

Mr. Moore’s experience as a horse shoer dates from the time when he commenced work in a horse shoeing shop as an apprentice, at the age of 16 years. Since which time horse shoeing has been his sole occupation.