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unit when a bunch of Argentine remounts 

 arrived in camp. They showed signs of 

 exhaustion from their voyage, but had not 

 been pastured after their landing in Africa. 

 The grass surrounding our camp was fairly 

 good, free from disease, and secure from attack 

 by day. So the officer commanding shackled 

 the remounts in our hnes, and I was punished 

 for feeding mine with grass. There was no 

 hay, so the horses had straight oats. As the 

 sky cleared or clouded the weather was frosty 

 or snowy, so the horses were blanketed. The 

 blankets were alwa^^s sodden except when they 

 stiffened with ice. On the fourteenth day the 

 last of these horses died. The whole was a 

 beautiful exhibition of stable management 

 apphed to outdoor horses without a stable. I 

 do not remember an instance of army authori- 

 ties consulting range horsemen as to the 

 management of range horses on any range. 

 Neither has it occurred to any army that the 

 outdoor horseman may have useful knowledge 

 concerning the outdoor horse. And yet the 

 sacrifice of 340,000 horses might have aroused 

 misgivings as to the Army system of manage- 

 ment. 



I am writing from practical experience in 

 stating that in the British Army authority 



