TEAN8P0RT BY SEA AND LAND 



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Tbanspoet by Rail. 

 Horses. 



The transport of horses by rail is a very simple and 

 comfortable procedure when the ordinary padded horse box 

 is used ; but military horses have to be carried in trucks 

 which are frequently open, and a few words on the subject 

 may prove of use. 



The general notion with regard to trucking horses 

 is that they require to be hauled in and their heads then 

 tied up. Both are wrong ; they want to be led in without 

 any hauling, a quiet and confidential horse leading, which 



Fig. 214. — Diagram of truck loaded with horses. PP is the platform ; 

 R, the lamp leading into the truck. At XX stands a man to receive 

 the head-ropes as the horses are loaded. 



is then turned round, and his head-rope thrown over the 

 truck for a man on the platform to hold. Once the first 

 horse starts going in the others must follow without a 

 check. Horses are very much like sheep in following each 

 other. Every alternate horse should turn to the right or 

 left with the heads facing the loading platform, the heads 

 being held by head-ropes passed to a man on the platform. 

 The last two horses are pressed in with their heads the 

 reverse way, owing to the fact they cannot be turned 

 round. Fig. 214, drawn by Major Eassie, A.V.D., exhibits 

 the loading up of horses in a military truck. 



It would be best for all the horses' heads to be turned 



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