The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig (1918) (14598147948)

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Title: The horse and the war. Illustrated from drawings by Lionel Edwards and from photographs. With a note by Sir Douglas Haig

Year: 1918 (1910s)

Authors: Galtrey, Sidney

Subjects: Great Britain. Army Horses

Publisher: London Country life

Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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until it is branded ; and, in the case of heavy horses, the formality ofweighing is insisted on before branding. It may be interesting here to touch on the much debated question as tothe number of horses one man can buy in a day before he loses his eye. Fewmen agree on this point, and no doubt some men can buy more than others ;but after seeing many thousands of horses and mules purchased the writer isstrongly of opinion that, as regards horses at any rate, there are few men whocan buy more than lOO a day without laying themselves open to a strongprobability of their form deteriorating. Having now got to the period when the animal has become the propertyof the British Government, we come next to that stage of his existence whichincludes safe transportation to the Atlantic seaport, and aU the machinery oforganization which this entails. Before entering on such a descriptive itineraryit will be as well to discuss briefly two main principles, either of which it hasbeen possible to adopt.

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Testing an alleged riding horse before a British Goverrnicnt purchaser. 30 THE HORSE AND THE WAR An even perfunctory knowledge of the map of North x\merica will enableany one to realize the enormous expanse of country which has to be traversedbetween the purchase area in the middle western states and the embarkationarea on the Atlantic seaboard. One of the most serious factors w^hich has tobe contended with in the horse business in North America—a factor which Iventure to think is anything but widely understood in this country—is shippingfever, which, speaking untechnically, is a sort of influenza constantly resultingin pneumonia or similar pulmonary diseases. It is a deplorable, but indisput-able, fact that over 70 per cent, of horses moved over rail contract this shippingfever—some directly and others a considerable period after detraining. Sofar, though researches are continuall)- being made, only qualified success withpreventive serum has been achie\ed. We have two possible

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