428 THE DIARY OF THE 10th FIELD BATTERY R.A. 
The best method of picketing the horses was found to be as 
follows: a head rope to each subdivision and a heel rope per section. 
The subdivisions of a section being picketed outwards from the heel 
rope the harness being put down in front of the horses. Heel pegs 
are easily lost and broken and have no hold in sandy or boggy ground 
and wood is not always available to replace them. t 
Seventy-five yards front and one hundred and ten yards depth is 
about the smallest area a battery can conveniently camp in with tents, 
though by running the two waggons between the limbers of a section 
and the spare carriages between the section about forty yards less 
depth can be done with, but this makes the gun park very cramped. 
