THE HORSE 



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According to a record made in 1901, the [ 

 number of horses employed by the great 

 mihtarv powers is as follows : 





On all sides we find a tendency to stop the 

 buying of war horses in foreign countries, 

 each country seeking to supply its own re- 

 mounts. One of the great cares of all military 

 powers should be to have at their disposal, 

 in case of war, as many horses as possible. 



Yet the different European states do not 

 all remount in the same manner. Prussia, 

 which requires annually nine thousand re- 

 mount horses, buys them, when three or four 

 years old, within its own borders, especially 

 in eastern Prussia, and also a few in Han- 

 over. They are then divided among seven- 

 teen remount stations, each of which covers 

 from about twenty-two hundred to four thou- 

 sand acres of land, so that the animals never 

 suffer from want of movement in fresh air. 



Saxony needs twelve hundred remounts 

 annually, which she obtains equally from eastern 

 Prussia and Hanover. She has five stations, three 

 of which have existed for nearly three centuries. 



Wiirttemburg demands annually five hundred 

 remounts, which are bought of two ages (four 

 to six, and three to four) and sent to Breithtilen, 



Types of Cav.'Vlrv Horses 



The Statue of Wn.LiAM the Silent 

 AT The Hague 



a remount station founded in 1S98. The other 



German states obtain their military horses 



from Prussia. 



Italy has an annual need of thirty-six hundred 



remounts for her one hundred and forty -four 

 squadrons of cavalry and her 

 twenty-six artillery regiments. 

 Formerly she drew them in 

 great part from Hungary, Ger- 

 many, and Denmark, but since 

 the year 18S8 she has obtained 

 them within her own borders. 

 They are mostly bought as foals 

 and brought up at the remount 

 stations. In 1897 urgent need 

 obliged the government to im- 

 port one thousand remount ani- 

 mals from Hungary. 



