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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1898
Page
16
The cavalry service buys new horses yearly with bids from 125 to 250 dollars. Quality varied in the past, but a reform has started as Uncle Sam seeks suitable mounts. About 7,000 horses are used, with roughly 10 percent culled annually, and new purchases fill the gaps from western plains and eastern breeding farms.
The author explains horse selection for cavalry, noting prices fallen to around 200 dollars for quality animals. Requirements include gentleness, sound health, good temperament, and proper conformation. Colors favored are sorrel, black, and bay. whites are avoided. Horses must be geldings, 15 to 16 hands, 950 to 1150 pounds, aged 6 to 8 years, and life expectancy about 15 years. Selection emphasizes vitality, intelligence, and provenance, with Kentucky as a major source. horses are branded U S and numbered, then assigned to various riders from West Point to frontier cavalrymen.
A brief exchange shows a person asking how to spell costume while drafting a letter about a new gown. A narrator offers the spelling aloud and mentions an unpaid sum of 65 dollars, with a quarrelsome remark labeling the other person a wretch. The snippet appears from the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
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