§ MR. E. H. BAYLEYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the system of cold shoeing of horses with machine-made shoes having proved to be practicable and superior to the present system by dispensing with the transporting of forges and farriers from place to place, he will consider the advisability of causing its adoption throughout the Army?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANDuring peace, half the number of Army horses are shod with machine-made shoes, and the shoes of the others are made by the farriers. In active operations, a much larger proportion 1495 would probably be machine-made; but their use and the practice of cold shoeing would not allow of the transport for farriers and forges being dispensed with.