The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-26
HORSESHOEING NOT so SIMPLE.
Education In. II Needed and the Horse.
shOers Demand State Schools.

The National Association Of Master
Horseshoers OF America held its annual
convention in Philadelphia last week.
and took stock Of trade progress and trade
needs. In theee days. when most trades
are no longer simple matters, horseshoe.
ing is no exception.
Horeeshoeins has become q sciencs.
The horseshoer learns how to 1T shoes
TO cure lameness, how to shoe to cure
hollow chests in run down gallant eteeds.
and how to change the gait of a hors.
by the simple method Of fitting his shoes
TO the gait desired
He must know something Of horse
anatomy. and the more he knows the better.
In fact, he must have a special education
for his branch Of industry il he would
do we'll
One Of the officers OF the national a..o-
citation complains that the average ar-
prentice 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 60 many new thing.
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
out how to shoe horse so that his habits
OF hitting his ankles, his shins. or his knees
can be cured. He explained his method
Tor the benefit Of his fellow craftsmen
Another has discovered that In mos.
cases sunken chests in horses are due 20
tender feet and bad ehoeing and has in
vented a shoe, with heels, to Al the case
Still another, for the conventions bene-
fl. went scientifically into the great eating
question from a sixty-four- year long study
OF IL. and told how to fit shoes 50 as 10 get
he top speed ont Of the animals under
Treatment
Horseshoeing. according to this veteran.
is still in its infancy, though II is a trade
centuries Old. Upon the mastery of ana'-
omy and physiology depends the COM
nothing would more conduce 10 this end
than the establishment Of a college which
should be made A Government insrl,ut.cr
for the benefit Of the horse.
The methods Of shoeing horses now ara
vastly different from those of wears ago
Time has wrought changes
The artificial highways over which IN.
animal does his work have tendency
10 demoralize the strongest hoof, and u
requires skill and science 70 keep the fee
IN the healthy condition with which n4-
ture originally endowed him Structural
changes in the hoof are the cause Of much
larneness alnong horses after being used
for a length Of time over the unylc.dius
pavements Of the city, and it is hnpos,5s
TO follow the same rule Of sho@ing In an
given number OF cases, so there Is the mora
need according 70 the experts in the trade.
for school or schools where the art
can be studied and the speed and condition
Of the horse improved thereby.
OF course American horssshoers are ahead
In the trade. They have taken improved
methods and appliances 10 all parts i
the world and have seen them snapy-i
up By foreign tlacksmiths
The convention learned Of the adveN'u"os
OF one OF lte memtels among the ha'n's
in South Africa and 81 another in far a'sv
Alaska
He Who had been 70 Alaska brought
back discoTaging report. There ara
few horses there and little work even ~
high prices tor the aoTse.hoer. Tine big
gest days work he had was putting ~
twenty shoes
II paid him SEQ, but with ALASKAN pr,ces
that vas nothing much. and he came korca
The folks who made money out there. 10
reported, were those who sold HUGE
10 eat and he told this instance e th.r
enterprise
A married couple came to tow. l.irr.
ing with them = pair 81 half-storved III CD
ems. These chickens were hougt' ~
an entcrprising restauranter Ph6 lug
GU a sign for two days with 'Ch!rker irr..
ner Tomorrow on IL
About 200 people sat down 20 tia, cAlDtu'
dinner, and there was plenty # ClioEcr
for everybody. Tho restluran, man ta0
lot ~ II packed away in cans de MADE
soup ont Of it and got So plate ior ? =
meat. He paid 80 for the two oh,oksoA'