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immunity from loss enjoyed by the Argentine 

 shipments (p. 12) during the present war, has 

 been due to the fact that they got little or no 

 corn up to their time of landing. I am, of 

 course, aware that Argentine remounts have 

 done badly, as a rule, in South Africa ; the 

 chief reasons for their failure being that they 

 were injudiciously selected, that their food in 

 South Africa was entirely different to that in 

 South America, and that the condition of their 

 feet was neglected (pp. 147 and 148). 



A point in these considerations which well- 

 to-do English horse-owners (like the majority 

 of our cavalry officers) are apt to neglect, is 

 that although horses of all breeds require corn 

 for severe and continued work, they can, as a 

 rule, do a fair amount of labour on grass alone, 

 and still better on hay, as all practical horse- 



