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Show BREAKING HORSES AT CAMP LEWIS CAMP LEWIS, Tacoma. Wash, April 26. To an amateur, breaking in a horse is not an easy or agreeable ' rask, but to the men at th remount i depot at Camp Lewis it is all in a day's j work and a very' pleasant day's work at that. In the first place the wild hor?r i led into a bullpen, about ten or twelve , feet high, built in a circle about 24 I feet in diameter and with hides slop-1 ing outward so that It la virtually impossible im-possible for a horse to crush the rider , against the wall The horse is saddled sad-dled and then ridden about the pen Until it becomes more or less accustomed accus-tomed to having its movements controlled con-trolled by a master's 1 nd. The next step is in a larger bullpen where the advanced lessons arr given and then the horse is ready to get its final lessons in the open. The men of the remount, drawn from the ranches of the west where busting bronchos and roping str-rr.- is an every day occurrence, are not encouraged en-couraged in exhibitions of broncho busting in their work at camp This is more spectacular and exciting to the participants, but Captain J. W. Jack Bon. in charge of the depot, works on the theory that the usefulness of any army horse is in inverse ratio to his bucking ability and the enlisted cowboys cow-boys direct their energies toward eliminating the desire to buck from the western horses. Training horses for officers' mounts is on of the important divisions of work of the remount depot here. The horses are carefully selected and well groomed before they are turned over '.o the officers, all cowboys with years of experience on the plains of the western states, and trained carefully so that they can be as easily handled on the scene of battle jis on the parade grounds. A bucking horse is spectacular hut he is of little use for actual service and it is the duty of the remount horsemen to turn out for officers' mounts a really serviceable animal. |