SOMETHING ABOUT HORSES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 250, 6 April 1880, Page 3

SOMETHING ABOUT HORSES.

The Berlin Military Zeilung prints an interesting papVr „on tho watering of horse's, a subject, the writer remarks, to which too" little .attention' is givtn by ' officers m command of mounted troops, orid oh which very erroneous ideas arc entertained by many.. The praciico of allowing her. es to drink only once a day, , «;nd tlicn in the evening—a custom which .is advocated by many because lit is in. ■vogue among the Arabs—is: rtrongly reprehended by the German ' writer, who joints out that while in Europe the horse's ration consists almost exclusively "ofcorn and hay, tho Arab gives his horse dates, a variety of plants and even milk. Fed as they are in Europorn armies, horses should, the' ■ riter maintains, be given water three times a clay, and they should be allowed each time to drink as much as they like. On the inaroh. also-horses should be allowed to r dring whenever circumstances', permit. Formerly men on the march we r estrictly forbidden to drink ; but now, on the contrary, especially when forced marches have to'be made in hot weather, care is taken that they shall be able to obtam •water, as it is now recognised that the body must be -compensated lor the moisture.it loses in profuse perspiration. A-3 with the min, so "with the horse.