TRANSPORTATION OF HORSES 131 



of the world, was brought from the West to her eastern 

 home, she made the long journey in an ordinary freight 

 car, and facing the side of the car. 



If there are two horses, they will support and com- 

 fort each other by standing side by side. There is 

 some danger that a vicious or nervous horse may kick 

 his companion, but if he shows signs of doing so, the 

 other horse can be tied by separate ropes slightly in 

 advance of the dangerous one, and in that position he 

 cannot be kicked. 



An attendant should always accompany a horse on 

 the cars, for the horse is more terrified and nervous if 

 left alone. The man, moreover, will be needed to keep 

 the bedding in place, for the horse will paw it back- 

 ward, especially at first. He will be needed also to 

 regulate the amount of air that comes into the car, and 

 to blanket the horse according to changing circum- 

 stances. Horses are usually shipped late in the after- 

 noon. If the weather is hot, the car, baked by the 

 sun, will be uncomfortably warm, and the horse, fright- 

 ened and nervous at first, will be in a. profuse sweat. 

 The train starts, the sun sets, air blows in, and, as night 

 comes on, the car gets cooler and cooler, and the horse 

 that required no clothing at first, will need one or two 

 thick blankets before morning. When a man accom- 

 panies the horse, one door of the car, that on the side 

 where other trains are passed, should be closed and 

 fastened. The other door should be left unfastened, 

 and, by means of a rope or stout cord, the attendant 

 can keep it just so much or so little open as he desires. 

 He should be provided with an overcoat, an old broom 



