i2 THROUGH STABLE AND SADDLE-ROOM. 



particular experience, I should give the preference 

 to the new cavalry stables at Glasgow and 

 Colchester, which far surpass, the former especially, 

 any cavalry stables I have ever seen. Those at 

 Glasgow are magnificent. It may perhaps be 

 interesting, in further proof of the value of an 

 unlimited supply of fresh air in stables, to quote 

 the following facts : 



In cavalry regiments, the young horses which 

 are purchased as ' remounts ' are chiefly obtained 

 in Ireland, and these come over thence in batches 

 varying in number as they are required. They are 

 packed in cattle-trucks, and started on their journey, 

 and often have to travel in severe weather with no 

 other protection from the cold than their own 

 coats ; yet on their arrival few, as a rule, seem any 

 the worse for it, beyond fatigue and accidents, the 

 result of kicks, etc., and it is very rarely, if ever, 

 that they are affected with coughs or colds. They 

 are nearly all brought straight from grass, yet, 

 within a few days of their being placed in stables, 

 and with every precaution taken to ensure ventila- 

 tion (the doors and windows of the stables being- 

 left open day and night, and but very few being 

 placed in each stable), they nearly all suffer from 

 coughs and colds, which generally end in strangles. 



During the autumn manoeuvres of 1875, I was, 



