The horse and the war . Wholl give me another half-guinea ? tremendous stimulus given to national food production. ^lany a draughthorse with ringbone, navicular, or even laminitis, has had his career of useful-ness extended through being transferred from the Army to the Food Produc-tion Department. He was useless in a team with a (icneral Service wagonon the roads ; his poor old feet and legs would not stand the jar. Buthe could work in comparative comfort in the plough or on the stubbles, andmoreover he helped to produce corn at a time when horse power on the landwas very badly wanted. Perhap
The horse and the war . Wholl give me another half-guinea ? tremendous stimulus given to national food production. ^lany a draughthorse with ringbone, navicular, or even laminitis, has had his career of useful-ness extended through being transferred from the Army to the Food Produc-tion Department. He was useless in a team with a (icneral Service wagonon the roads ; his poor old feet and legs would not stand the jar. Buthe could work in comparative comfort in the plough or on the stubbles, andmoreover he helped to produce corn at a time when horse power on the landwas very badly wanted. Perhaps the lot of the cast riding-horse is most pathetic. Who wants. ii6 THE HORSE AND THE WAR him ? He can no longer carry a man because his poor old forelegs have gone,and there is not enough of him to make a draught horse. And yet any oldjob in the shafts must mark his rapid descent in the equine social want to buy the cast mule. The average Englishman does not understandthe mule ; neither does he seem to wish for any better appreciation of thegallant old slave. Certainlv it is a mystery to one who has seen him do sosplendidly in this war and can gladly concede the undoubted virtues hepossesses. Their small feet are not adapted to work on heavy land, butthat may be more apparent than real. The real test is how the mule acquitshimself, and there seem to be no conditions to which he cannot adapt , as I have said, no one wants to pay much for the cast mule. It may bebecause there is practically no chance of curing a mule suffering from pro-nounced bone lameness, or that one cast for vice is regarded as being altogetherpast prayin
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