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Title: Horses, saddles and bridles
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Carter, William H. (William Harding), 1851-1925
Subjects: Cavalry Horses
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : The Lord Baltimore Press, The Friedenwald Company
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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t of the equipment of each vessel, but for fear of a break-downor failure to furnish a sufficient quantity of water, an ample supplyshould be carried in the ballast tanks. A deck tank should beprovided into which the water should be pumped for distribution,by gravity, to the various animal compartments. Barrels shouldbe at hand in each compartment for use in connection with thehose in the distribution to the horses. The filling of buckets fromhose is a rather slow process, but the water is not wasted to suchan extent as when dipped from barrels when the ship is rolling.Unless great care is taken the barrels are soon fouled with dirtybuckets. 392 HORSES, SADDLES AND BRIDLES A small water-trough, holding enough for two animals, andarranged on wheels, as a push cart, is preferable to buckets. Thehose can be constantly refilling it, and it avoids the difficulty ofhaving two horses trying to drink from the same bucket. Anothersimple plan is to carry nests of assorted sizes of ordinary zinc
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Figure 129. Leading animals to the main deck. washtubs, which can be placed on the deck at each alternate head-post so that two horses can drink from the same tub at the sametime. A room should be provided for tools, instruments and horsemedicines. Canvas bags or baskets should be provided for col-lecting manure, which should be thrown overboard, together with TRANSPORTATION OF HORSES BY RAIL AND AT SEA 393 the wet or soiled hay, which may clog the scuppers when the decksare washed. * The question of hospital accommodations has received muchconsideration. A few large stalls near the hatchways will affordopportunities to treat ordinary cases. If the deck load is restricted,as it should be, to forage for the first week out, the space will thenbe available for deck stalls, which can be quickly prepared, and towhich ailing animals may be taken for fresh air and treatment.Notwithstanding that every effort was made to provide the bestpatterns of large canvas slings heretofore considered ess

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