Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-11-27
HoRsEsHoEINe NOT so SIMPLE
Education in the TrEde Is Needed,
and There Is a Demand for
Schools in the States.

Horseshoeing has become a sci.
ence. The horseshoer learns how to
fit shoes to cure lameness, how to
shoe and cure hollow chests in run
down, gallant steeds, and how to
change the gait of a horse by the
simple method of fitting his shoes
to the gait desired, says the New
York Sun.
He must know something of horse
anatomy, and the more he knows the
better. Ia foot, he must have a spe-
cial edu atom for his branch of in
dustry, if he would do well.
One of the officers of the national
association complains that the aver
age apprentice is not learned in the
principles of horse anatomy, and
fears that until he is, the trade will
lag in the rear of others. Another
boldly advocates state schools in
horseshoeing to teach the rudiments
of the art. They are all enthusiasts,
and they have discovered so many
new things in horseshoeing in the
last year that $50 large pages of the
trade organ are needed to tell them.
A horseshoer from the west has
found cut how to shoe a horse so
that his habit of hitting his ankles,
his shins or his knees, can be cured.
He explained his method for the
benefit of his fellow craftsmen.
Another has discovered that in
most cases sunken chests in horses
are due to tender feet, and bad shoe
ing. and has Invented d shoe with
heels, to fit the case.
Still another, for the conventions
benefit, went scientifically into the
great eating question from a 64-year-
long study of it, and told how to fit
shoes so as to get the top speed tut
of the animals under treatment.
Horseshoeing, according to this
veteran, is still in it's infancy, though
it is a trade centuries old. Upon
the mastery of anatomy and physi
ology depends the competency of the
profession, he says, and nothing
would more conduce to this end thar
the establishment of a college which
should be made a government insti
tuition for the benefit of the horse
The method of shoeing horses now
are vastly different from those OF
years ago. Time has wrought
changes.
The artificial highways over which
J the animal does his work have a tend
! ency to demoralize the strongest hoof
and it requires skill and science t.
J keep the feet in the healthy condi
=, ton with which nature originally en-
: dowed him. Structural changes Fl
the hoof + the cause or much lame
ness among horses, after being uset
for a length Of time over She unyield
ing pavements of the city, and it il
impossible to follow the same rule o
shoeing in a given number of cases
so there is the more need, accord
ing to the experts in the trade, TO
a school or schools where the art cal
be studied and the speed and condi
ton of the horse improved thereby
OF course American horseshoer
are ahead in the trade. They hav
taken improved methods and appli
ances to all parts of the world, an,
have seen them snapped up by for
eign blacksmiths.
The convention learned of the aG
ventures of one of it's member
among the Kaffirs in South Africf
and of another in far-away Alaska.
He who had been to Alaska brough
back a discouraging report. Their
are few horses there, and little wor
even at high prices for the horse
sheer. The biggest days work he ha
was putting on 20 shoes.
It paid him $50, but with Alaska
prices that was nothing much, an
he came home. The folks who mad
money out there, he reported, wer
those who sold things to eat, and Il
told this instance of their enter
prise:
"a married couple came to tow
bringing with them a pair of hal
!! starved chickens. These chicken
L. were bought by an enterprisirg re-
taurateur, who hung out a sign fc
two days with Chicken Dinner Tt
e morrow on it.
n "About 200 people sat down to tina
It chicken dinner, ard there was plent
d of chicken for everybody. The re
It taurant man had a lot of it packe
d away in cans. He made soup of /
l. and got three dollars a plate for til
2 chicken soup and a little of til
d canned meat. He paid $50 for tn
r. two ohinLencS