Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

X Kisalföld - X-17 Smithy from Szilsárkány

• Branding Livestock were identified by earmarks burnt into the hide. The handled branding-iron was handed down within the family from father to son. Yearling calves were traditionally branded in the morning of Good Friday. At one time they were seared on their hind quarters, later on their chop or neck with attention to the demands of leather factories in order not to damage the leather Oxen and rams were also branded on their horns. Foals were barely touched with the redhot iron because their fine hair burns easily, and their skin is more sensitive than that of the cattle. Burns were treated with lard. ment in the workshop, all of which are complete and operable. In front of the building a shoeing-shed for oxen was erected because oxen had to be placed in stocks' to be shod. Shoeing demanded the highest expertise. It was also the most common work: 60-70 horses and the same number of oxen were shod per year Some blacksmiths cured people and also pulled teeth or let blood.