A Handbook Of Horse Shoeing

Author : Jno; A. W. Dollar
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ISBN 13 : 9781332344079
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Horse-Shoeing written by Jno; A. W. Dollar and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook of Horse-Shoeing: With Introductory Chapters on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Horse's Foot The friendly reception accorded to previous efforts euconraged the hope that a volume dealing with that less studied though scarcely less useful subject, Horse-shoeing, might find similar acceptance. To provide material, all the best known German, French, and Italian treatises have been ransacked, the leading English works referred to, and the information thus gained collated. Without any intention of disparaging the labors of other authors, the writer feels hound to confess that he has found no work of more practical and scientific value than Leiseriug-Haitmann's masterly Handbook, "Der Fuss des Pferdes;" which, though in a much modified form, and with the addition of a large amount of new matter, has been adopted as the model and substantial basis for the present volume. Other sources of information are indicated in the Bibliography hereto attached. The first nineteen pages, on the history of Horse-shoeing, have been translated, with little alteration, from Leisering-Hartmann. In the section devoted to the Anatomy of the Foot, Professor Mettain has kindly contributed pages 61 to 65, and fig. 66 on page 106. The part dealing with practical Horse-shoeing has been almost entirely re-written, while many additions drawn from the writer's own experience or from Continental literature have been made in order to adapt the book to the requirements of English readers. To Mr. Albert Wheatley is due one of the chief features of the book, viz., the large-sized blocks of horse-shoes printed on separate sheets, and the descriptions accompanying them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.