4: PREFACE. 



time have made his nature a study. The result of that 

 study is, that humanity as well as economy will be best 

 served by kindness. 



It has indeed seemed to me that the Government 

 might make a great saving every year by employing 

 only such teamsters and wagon-masters as had been 

 thoroughly instructed in the treatment and management 

 of animals, and were in every way qualified to perform 

 their duties properly. Indeed, it would seem only rea- 

 sonable not to trust a man with a valuable team of 

 animals, or perhaps a train, until he had been thoroughly 

 instructed in their use, and had received a certificate of 

 capacity from the Quartermaster's Department. If this 

 were done, it would go far to establish a system that 

 would check that great destruction of animal life which 

 costs the Government so heavy a sum every year. 



H. K. 



Washington, D. C, April 12, 1867, 



