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applications. I mention these incidents to show the value 

 which of&cers and men themselves attached to instruction, the 

 after-Armistice classes being entirely voluntary. 



Let us see now how it can be applied as a practical proposi- 

 tion in the Army, and for easy discussion I shall arrange 

 remarks under three headings, such remarks being held to 

 relate specially to India : — 



Instruction during Peace. 



Instruction during War. 



Instruction in view op men taking their 



DISCHARGE PROM THE ArMY. 



Chapter II. 

 INSTEUCTION DUEING PEACE. 



In India there are two properly constitutfed Army Veterinary 

 Schools, one in the South, at Poona, and the other in the North 

 at Ambala. Each is affiliated to a large Station Veterinary 

 Hospital, and has therefore every facility for teaching and 

 demonstration. The Principals of the Schools are specially 

 selected by reason of their ability to teach, their experience of 

 India, and their knowledge of Hindustani. Classes used to be 

 of six weeks and two months duration, but to permit of more 

 pupils being instructed, the period has been reduced to three 

 weeks. The schedule of instruction is entirely directed towards 

 Animal Management and the prevention of inefficiency, with a 

 little instruction in methods of fiirst aid. Dissertations on 

 particular diseases and treatment of a more advanced degree, 

 which in days gone by used to form a considerable portion of 

 the curriculum, have been curtailed. War has shown that in- 

 effectives are best handed over to a Special Service for treat- 

 ment, and that the role of units is one of minimising inefficiency 

 by knowledge and expedient rather than treatment of ineffect- 

 ives, for which they have no time on active service, even if 

 the procedure was correct. 



Thus the aim and object of these classes is prevention of 

 disease, wastage, and inefficiency ; and to effect this more surely 



