When the war began farmers in East Anglia found that the zoom of planes and rattle of machine-gun fire upset the horses; so they got together and decided to train them to be shoekproof. This they did by swinging rook-scaring rattles until the animals learned to ignore the noise.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 5
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