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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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mals thereshould be one non-commissioned officer and fifteen privates.When the personnel consists of civilian employes a train master,wagon masters and civilian teamsters take the places of enlistedmen. After making details for guard, kitchen police and messattendants and the usual allowance for sickness each private orteamster will be required to care for about ten animals. Whenorganized wagon and pack trains are being transported with theexpectation of immediate field service upon disembarkation,teamsters and packers should accompany the trains. TRANSPORTATION OF HORSES BY RAIL AND AT SEA 397 The ship should be apportioned off so that each non-commis-sioned officer or wagon- master may know exactlywhat animals and space heis responsible for, the stallsbeing numbered for thepurpose of division. Eachnon-commissioned officeror wagon-master shouldmake his own details forguard, call his own rolls,keep the forage record andnote on a bulletin-boardthe sick animals and thenames of the men o
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Figure 131. Unloading animals, Ponce, Porto Rico. The senior non-commissioned officer or trainmaster should exer-cise general supervision, keep the forage accounts, the morning 39^ HORSES, SADDLES AND BRIDLES report and be responsible to the officer in charge that cleanhnessand good order are enforced. The officer in charge should make a general inspection threetimes each twenty-four hours. Neglect of duty or abuse of ani-mals should meet with just and summary punishment. Disputesand misunderstandings should be settled promptly, with dignityand tact, appealing to the ships captain when any of his crew areinvolved. Arriving at destination, the animals should, if possible, be un-loaded at a dock by means of a gangway, the animals from belowbeing led up on the ramps. If there are no ramps the unloadingmust be by means of slings or the flying stall, the latter beingpreferable (figures 131 and 132). If the animals must be unloaded into the water to swim ashore,great care should be exercise

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