io8 THE CADRES 



how young horses should be broken in. Therefore, in 

 each two cadre brigade there are six regimental officers 

 and about twenty-eight reserve officers. The regimental 

 officer who acts as A.D.C. to the general, stays three 

 years in the brigade. The three atdelenie of each cadre 

 supply about 400 horses yearly to their three regiments, 

 making in all, about 7200 horses for the dragoons. 



The names of the stations of the eight brigades which 

 supply the fifty-four dragoon regiments (cavalry of the line) 

 with horses are given on page 1 13. 



The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th brigades consist of two 

 cadres each ; the 7th has three cadres ; and either the ist or 

 the Caucasian brigade has three cadres, but I cannot tell which ; 

 because I did not go to them. 



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The young animals intended for dragoon service, are 

 bought by remount officers (remonteurs) from breeders in 

 the steppes of the Don and elsewhere, and are sent by 

 them to the brigades to be accepted or rejected as the 

 case may be. They are received into the brigades from 

 about the 2Oth September to the 6th November. The 

 average price given by the remonteurs for each animal 

 is about 125 roubles (^13, 55.), which food, transport and 

 other charges increase to 205 or 210 roubles (^21, 145. or 

 ^"22, 53.) on arrival at the brigades. These remounts 

 have a minimum height of 2 archines and i^ vershok 

 (14 hands and 2-f inches), and are from 3 off to rising 5. 

 They are kept at the cadres for ten or eleven months, 

 so that they may recover from the privations they have 

 suffered in the open, and may become quiet enough to be 

 bridled, saddled and ridden before being drafted to their 

 respective regiments, by which time they will have cost about 

 350 roubles each ; say, ^37. They remain at light work 

 in their regiments for the first year before being regularly 

 taken on as troopers. 



