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REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. 
Stables were built at Hissar for the Experimental Drome- 
dary Corps in 1817. After the Pinslurrie war, the corps was 
not kept up ; their stables have been subsequently used for 
remount colts. 
Stables were also allowed for gun bullocks at some stations. 
The same reasoning would equally apply to these animals if 
you wished to keep them in high condition ; but this shows 
you to what extremes opinion will go, when it becomes a 
finance question. Stables for no animal. We had sheds for 
the cattle at the large cow farm at Hissar, but the camels for 
breeding were out grazing in the province, without cover, 
and such a thing is not thought of by the natives for camels, 
even when hard-worked by the commercial carriers of the 
country. 
A caravanserie in the east affords only cover, and scarcely 
that, for man. There is not a finer climate and country in 
the world than the upper or north-western provinces of 
India, during the cold season ; but when I tell you it freezes 
at night, and is hot during the day, you will allow that 
animals exposed should be well clothed and fed, if their con- 
dition is to be kept up. Dealers’ horses are at this season 
well covered with warm clothing, highly fed, and have 
cordials. Their practice is contrary to the exposure system, 
because they take ever}' means in their power to counteract 
the effects of cold. I recollect one Christmas at Hissar, 
when it rained, all the dealers’ horses for the remount had 
cough, and some catarrh, and could not be shown to a com- 
mittee for some days, till the warmth of the weather furnished 
clothing for them to recover. 
You would be surprised to see the quantity of felt, woollen, 
or cotton-wadded clothing, used by Cabul horse- merchants 
on their horses. Even the lowest horse-merchant from 
Bombay, when in the upper provinces, takes good care to 
keep his Arabs warm. 
The late Professor Coleman said the horse never had fever, 
that is the cold fit, succeeded by the shivering, and then the 
hot and sweating fit. I have stripped an Arab racer in a 
tent at Meccul; the cold and shivering fit has happened 
immediately, and which, (if the horse had not been taken to 
the post,) would have been succeeded by the hot fit, and the 
skin would have become moist. 
I have written these few remarks in support of my opinion. 
Animals of every description, if you wish to keep them in 
health, require care and protection in all climates, and I have 
observed them in the extremes of heat and cold. It is most 
economical, and, if numerically considered, most advantageous. 
