E-text prepared by David Garcia, Tamise Totterdell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Kentuckiana Digital Library (http://kdl.kyvl.org/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22603-h.htm or 22603-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/6/0/22603/22603-h/22603-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/6/0/22603/22603-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Kentuckiana Digital Library. See http://kdl.kyvl.org/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=kyetexts;cc=kyetexts;xc=1&idno=B98-49-42334752&view=toc RATIONAL HORSE-SHOEING. by WILDAIR. PREFIX. Since the publication of this little volume we have made changes in our horse shoe with a view to adapt it especially to Army use. Our design has been to make a shoe that any Army farrier can apply in a cold state without the use of any other tool than a knife to prepare the hoof, and a hammer to drive the nails. Our success in this attempt has been so complete that we are now using the pattern designed especially for Army use in all our contract work. The shoe is rolled without a heel calk, so that the frog-pressure may be readily secured without heating and drawing the iron:--the nail holes are punched so that the nail furnished by us with the shoe may be driven, without the use of the pritchel to punch out the holes. The shoe, being made of the best quality of iron, may be bent cold to adapt it to the shape of the hoof. Officers will at once see what a vast saving there is in the transportation of shoes--requiring no forge with its heavy outfit--and which are less than half the weight of the clumsy old patterns. [Illustration: THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.] RATIONAL HORSE-SHOEING. by WILDAIR. With Illustrations. New York: Published by Wynkoop and Hallenbeck, No. 113 Fulton Street. 1873. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. INTRODUCTION.