viii PREFACE. 



Horse claim and deserve most attention. We 

 soon forgot about the loss of over 300,000 

 horses in the Boer War, with the result 

 that when the World War broke out in 

 1 9 14 we were as deficient in horses as 

 in men and munitions. If the suggestions 

 made b}^ a horsemaster who knows more 

 about Range than Indoor or Pleasure 

 horses — suggestions as to the breeding, rear- 

 ing, and management of militar}^ horses — 

 are duly considered we may have an ample 

 suppty of suitable horses for our next war. 



J. COSSAR EWART. 



UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH, 

 September, 1916. 



