HORSE-BREEDING FOR FARMERS CHAP. 
minor details the Arabs of to-day may teach 
us something, and that the Arab horse, if 
inferior in size and pace, has other qualities 
in which, for cavalry purposes at least, he is 
superior to our own. Our horses would be 
better if they had more of the endurance, the 
hardihood, and the wear-and-tear qualities of 
these wiry “drinkers of the air.” A French 
cavalry, Arab, or Barb horse will carry above 
24 stones on a military expedition, counting 
his rider, accoutrements, arms, and five days’ 
provisions ; and is required to do it equally 
under a hot sun in the sand of the desert, or 
on rocky ground amongst the snow-clad 
mountains." 
1 The following is a table given by General E. Daumas as to the 
regulation 
allowance of weight carried by an Algerian trooper. I give 
it as it stands, an order, given by Colonel Duringer, on the departure 
of a column, 
POIDS PORTE PAR LE CHEVAL D’UN CHASSEUR D’ AFRIQUE 
PARTANT EN EXPEDITION. 
(Weight carried by the horse of a Chasseur d’Afrique departing on service.) 
(Trooper) Cavalier armé et en tenue . 
(Accoutrements) Harnachement avec le 
pistolet 
Kilogr. Hectogr. Décagr. 
ilogr. 
a SHORE y (34527 02.) (.353 02.) 
82 
° 
. 2 2. ° ° 
(Bread) Pain pour 2 jours : 5 ° 
are Biscuit pour 3 jours I 6 5 
Coffee) Café pour 5 jours ° 6 ° 
Sugar) Sucre pour 5 jours ° 6 ° 
Bacon) Lard pour 5 jours I ° fe) 
Rice) Riz pour 5 jours ° 3 ° 
a Sel . ‘ 5 ° ° 8 
Forage) Fourage roulé pour 5 jours 25 ° ° 
(Barley) Orge pour 5 jours 3 20 ° ° 
(Cartridges) Trois ‘pacquets de car- 
touches : I 3 ° 
(Shoes) Quatre fers 7 6 ° 
159 6 3=about 352 lbs. 
This weight is 19 kilos. more than a carabineer’s horse and 26 more 
than a cuirassier’s horse carries in France. 
