896 
G. E. GRIFFIN. 
On the morning of the 17th it was decided to give the ani¬ 
mals a regular amount of work, consisting of twelve miles a day 
each, with saddle packed with soldiers’ field kit, or its equiva¬ 
lent, which with the man averaged very nearly 203 pounds. 
Animals were watered at 6 a. m., fed fifteen pounds of grass 
and seven pounds of molasses immediately afterwards ; at 7.30 
A. M. they were all saddled, and the detachment under our own 
direction (riding No. 2) proceeded thus : one mile walk, one 
mile regulation trot, one mile walk, one mile slow gallop, two 
miles walk, one mile fast gallop, one mile trot, two miles walk. 
Returning to the stable not earlier than 9.30 A. M., unsaddled, 
placed horses on picket line ; water was offered at all of the nu¬ 
merous streams crossing the line of march while en route , but 
was refused except on rare occasions, and then partaken of only 
by the oldest animal in the detachment, No. 6, fifteen years old ; 
water was offered at noon, but little partaken of; at 4.30 P. M. 
twenty pounds of grass and seven pounds of molasses were again 
fed ; salt was offered twice a week, and about three ounces par¬ 
taken of for the week ; the molasses was diluted with 25 per 
cent, of water and mixed with the chopped grass as far as possi¬ 
ble; where all could not be mixed it was dissolved in water 
and offered as a drink, which was partaken of during the night 
out of the bucket left in each manger. 
Commencing with January the 20th all of the horses com¬ 
menced to pick up, and by the 5th of February all of them had 
arrived at their original weight, and in some cases, notably No. 
2, had surpassed it, with the exception of No. 6, the old horse, 
which regained his weight slowly. By the end of February all 
of the horses had increased in weight over the original from 35 
to 68 pounds, the former in the case of No. 6, the latter No. 2. 
This increase was maintained or varied from very little through¬ 
out the experiment, except in the case of No. 6, the old horse, 
which slowly put on 52 pounds over the original. The work 
was continued daily, rain or shine, Sundays excepted, and in 
addition to this we were glad to let the horses out to garrison 
riding parties and for drills and parades, so long as it did not in- 
