Statement about Front Royal Quartermaster Depot photographic essay
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Pursuant to letter from Offices of The Quartermaster General dated January 23, 1941, herewith is submitted photographic essay of operations at the Front Royal Quartermaster Depot (Remount), Front Royal, Virginia. Signed Pleas D. Rogers, Lt. Col. QMC, Comdg.
Flagpole on Front Royal, Virginia property
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Purchasing Horses. All horses and mules are purchased by the Officer in Charge, Easter Remount Area, whose Headquarters are located at this Depot.
Soldiers handle horses offered for sale
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Soldiers immediately take charge of horses brought to the Depot to be sold.
A new horse is weighed
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The new horse is taken at once to the scales and weighed.
A new horse is measured
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The horse is next measured for height.
Inspection of a new horse's teeth
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Determining the age by inspection of teeth.
Winding the horse to inspect laryngeal membranes
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Winding the horse. This is done by violently exercising the horse to determine the condition of his laryngeal membranes.
Veterinarian's inspection of horse's respiratory system
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A Veterinarian listens carefully to the horse's respiratory movements immediately following the violent exercise.
A new horse passes inspection
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Newly purchased horse. …Sound.
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All horses and mules received are placed under the control of the Veterinary Service for branding and testing for diseases common to them.
Animals are received at railroad station
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After being checked to determine of they are in condition to go over the trail by a Veterinary Officer the animals are then started over the trail for the Quarantine Area under supervision of the wrangling gang.
Animals are received at designated corrals
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Animals being received at the Norfolk and Western Railroad receiving corrals.
Animals herded to quarantine area
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Animals being herded by wrangling gang from railroad station to Quarantine Area.
New horse Hercelia Maddox arrives from railroad station trail
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After the trip over the trail from the railroad station now entering Hercelia Maddox. (NOTE; Hercelia Maddox under supervision of Veterinary Service. Processing of all animals begins here.)