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ARMY HORSE AND MULE BUYING In horse buying for tlie army as in everything elsc it IB difficult for any man to continuously retain his form This point is touched upon in Captain Sydney Galtreys recently published book Tlie Horse and the AArar and BrigadierGeneral Bate states Wat after seeing thousands of horses and mules purchased he is strongly of opinion that as regiirds horses at any rate few men can buy more tliiin pne hundred a day witlmut laying them ¬ selves ppen to a strong probability of their form deteriorating The English army finished the war with nltput a million even in face of heavy wastage TlieJ veterinary hospitals did fcreat work in France as of 551900 horses and mules treated from the beginning of ithe war until February 1919 394708 were passed outjis cured In the Bame period 10215 died and 106CUO were destroyed cast and gold fncJuaiJiS tli9se ojd t j b rsp bwtclWfS
