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Title: The horse and the war
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Galtrey, Sidney, 1878-1935
Subjects: Horses
Publisher: London : "Country life"
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ecretary of the influential PercheronHorse Society of America, has given us a reason why the American lightdraught horses survive the weather test so well. They are more or lesshardened by the nature of their life from birth, and the fact, of course, is notpeculiar to one generation. Of our English horses the charger class withthoroughbred blood in them, either whole or in part, have done well, thoughthe principle would not be the one ordinarily adopted when dealing with ourhunters and high-class riding horses in peace time. They have required agood deal of nursing and watching, and wanted all, if not more than, theration of hay and corn allowed them. The maximum amount of self-createdbodily warmth is essential to make up for open stabling, w^hich is often sweptby chilling winds. A horse at liberty in a field can exercise himself in thehardest weather ; far otherwise is it with him when tied up in a semi-openstall. Really it is wonderful how they have adapted themselves to the drastic
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3 C0X1 o 42 THE HORSE AND THE WAR change. No blankets to wear when they travel, no knee boots and tailbandages as a protection against possible disfigurement, but instead they aresent to their destination on the first stage of their journey overseas eight ornine in a truck. Once that same truck carried cattle, sheep or pigs to a markettown. Now it is the equipage de luxe of the charger or the mule. Every horse should have his proper job in the Army. That there may bemisfits is a matter for the buyers conscience. Those at the head define thetypes required and issue instructions accordingly. If an animal is neither aheavy draught, a light draught, a charger, an officers cob, a cavalry horse,an artillery riding-horse nor a pack-horse, then there is only one class remainingfor him. He is a nondescript. He may have his uses in civil life, but mostcertainly he should never have been bought at the public expense for someobscure military purpose. I suppose it is human nature for one commissio

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