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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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has been taken to make the number of sick as small as possible. No effortis spared to try and keep the embarkation depots free from being clogged withnumbers of sick animals. In the embarkation depots the animals get a finalrest of several weeks, which, with a system of extensive runs, makes a sort offinishing process before going on board ship. Embarkation itself requires little or no description except to remark thatthe final selection for fitness of animals from the embarkation depots for sendingon board ship is made with even greater care than former inspections. In thisconnection it must be mentioned that the adequaten^ss of the arrangementson board ship, for which the embarkation officer—also a remount official—isresponsible, is a priceless factor in the matter of the condition of the animals ontheir arrival in the United Kingdom. So far little or no mention has been made of the different types of horseswhich are purchased for the Army, nor has the mule been more than barely
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■a at oo •CJDC o 7-—s.-jf.-Ai^i .,.-:>-^:-ijP5^:^yi^ 34 THE HORSE AND THE WAR mentioned. Either of these subjects is worthy of more space than can bedevoted to it in this chapter, but a brief description of both would appear to bedesirable. Broadly speaking, three types or classifications of horses have beenpurchased and exported from the United States and Canada—cavalry, lightartillery, heavy artillery. Experts have known for some time, and our purchas-ing activities have proved beyond contention, that the cavalry horse as weknow him in England does not- exist in North America in any numbers whichare appreciable for modern war requirements. What have been bought ascavalry are the best that can be procured, but that is all. The cavalry horseis not a commercial factor in America, and that, in a nutshell, is the reasonof the scarcity of the type. The light artillery horse is the commercial equine article of the country,and has proved himself good through and through. It is a

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