§ 92. Mr. HUNTasked the Under-Secretary for War if he can state for what reason most of the Canadian horses have their manes hogged; is he aware that the absence of a mane is a great disadvantage to a man mounting and dismounting; and can he issue instructions that no more troop horses are to have their manes cut off?
§ Mr. TENNANTExcept where horses have been bought with manes already hogged, or have had their manes so treated in view of skin trouble, only those horses are hogged in cases in which the competent military authorities consider it desirable.
§ Mr. HUNTIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that almost all the Canadian horses have their manes hogged, and can he not do something to prevent that practice from being continued?
§ Mr. TENNANTI cannot make any promise as to what will be done. The hon. Gentleman must understand that those horses were brought over already in a hogged condition.
§ Mr. HUNTIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that their manes are hogged in this country, as I know to my certain knowledge; and is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that there is, in this practice, great danger to men who have to get on and off their horses quickly, and would it not be a perfectly simple, matter to issue, orders that manes are not to be hogged?
§ Mr. TENNANTI am not aware that horses manes are hogged in this country; that is not my information.