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perature is regulated, where they are warmly 

 clothed and regularly fed, and despatch 

 them to endure the hardships of campaign- 

 ing in countries where hay and oats are 

 unknown or unprocurable, and the forage 

 obtainable is unsuited to English chargers 

 in short, to most severely tax their powers 

 under a set of conditions entirely opposed 

 to those to which they are accustomed is 

 to invite heavy mortality. 



The sacrifice of useful qualities to the 

 " god of inches " is deplored only in so far 

 as it applies to horses for mounted infantry 

 and light cavalry. The utility of large and 

 powerful horses is not, and never has been, 

 questioned. In point of fact it is their value 

 for the work in which they are employed 

 that has done something to blind us to the 

 very real value for special tasks of ponies : 

 and if the foregoing pages do anything to 

 prove that there is in modern warfare a 

 place of the highest importance which can 

 only be filled by the small horse of 14.2 

 or thereabouts, their object has been ful- 

 filled. 



BREEDING SMALL HORSES. 



Assuming that the peculiar suitability of 

 horses between 14 hands and 14 hands 



