540 



CONTINENTAL HORSES. 



22 millions of horses, which number shows that there 

 are at least 26 horses to every 100 inhabitants of that 

 country. This equine percentage is about three times as 

 large as that which exists in England. While I was 

 employed by the Russian Minister of War at the Russian 

 Remount Depots and in St. Petersburg, I had very 

 favourable opportunities for studying Russian horses, 



Fig. 541. — Russian match IruUer. 



and for seeing the great interest which their agri- 

 cultural owners take in them. We are all aware 

 that Russia is an agricultural, not a manufacturing 

 country. When discussing the present subject, I shall 

 largely avail myself of notes and photographs taken from 

 Among Horses in Russia, which is a book I wrote on 

 my return to England from that country. 



Following the expert teaching of de Simonoff and de 



