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Title: Horses, saddles and bridles
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Carter, William H. (William Harding), 1851-1925
Subjects: Cavalry Horses
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : The Lord Baltimore Press, The Friedenwald Company
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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t tmhulledrice (palay) and appeared to thrive on it. The native ponies arefed on palay, tique-tique (ground rice) and miel, a species ofcoarse molasses which is poured over the rice meal. They arealso fed large quantities of a very watery grass called sacate. The allowance of forage is ample for all ordinary purposes, andwhere grazing is abundant and opportunity is afforded the animalsto avail themselves of it, a portion of the allowance can be saved. The forage allowance is fourteen pounds of hay per day foreach horse and mule, and one hundred pounds of straw for bed-ding for each animal per month. Grain is issued at the rate ofnine pounds a day for mules and twelve for horses. In specialcases of exposure, when the necessities of the service demandan increase, three pounds additional grain may be authorized foreach animal daily. The allowance for native Philippine ponies isthirty-three pounds of green forage and when this cannot be ob-tained ten pounds of hay and five pounds of oats.
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Figure 125. Blue Joint. FORAGE 379 In some portions of the Philippine Islands public animals aresubsisted on palay, native grasses, and green corn stalks. Inother localities the grass is very inferior, possessing little or nonutriment, thus necessitating the transportation of hay, which isa very expensive item. When from any cause it becomes impracticable to supply fullforage to public animals, a reduction is made by order, to affectall alike. There is no government standard weight of grain per bushel.Grain is usually contracted for by the hundred-weight, and bythe ton of 2240 pounds, or by the hundred-weight. In a majority of States the weights per bushel are as follows:Shelled corn, fifty-six; on the cob, seventy; barley, thirty-eight,and oats, thirty-two pounds; bran not less than twenty pounds. CHAPTER XVI. TRANSPORTATION OF HORSES BY RAIL AND AT SEA. Transportation of Horses by Rail.—Modern Cars.—Inspection of Cars.—Detachments Accompanying Horse Trains.—Implements to be

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