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useless for the latter he should surely be retired for good financial reasons 

 from Government ownership. Thus he would become a " caster," and the 

 (Government would be relieved of the further responsibility of his maintenance. 

 The inclusion of this chapter in " The Horse and the War " needs no better 

 iu^tification than the need for explaining a procedure by which the worn out 

 and the diseased are discarded and relieved from further service of " national 

 importance." 



