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will have no effect whatever on the purpose, plan, or methods of either 

 the carriage horse or Morgan breeding projects, but horses bred at 

 those stations may be used incidentally in the Army work. 



SUMMARY. 



1. All modern countries, except those in America, have found it nec- 

 essary to encourage the breeding of horses suitable for military 

 purposes. 



2. Little or no difficulty was experienced in mounting the armies of 

 the Civil War with suitable horses. 



3. The draft-horse industry has been developed in the United 

 States since the Civil War, and in several States there are now more 

 than four times as many purebred draft stallions as purebred 

 Standardbred, Thoroughbred, and coach stallions, notably in Iowa, 

 Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah. In 

 North Dakota the ratio is nearly 8 to 1. 



4. The difficulty and expense of obtaining suitable military horses 

 is illustrated by the mounted police of our cities, whose mounted 

 patrolmen combined would not equal a regiment of cavalry on a war 

 footing. The .New York police department buys only about 75 horses 

 annually for its mounted police, and has to pay nearly $400 each for 

 them. 



5. The militia requires good mounts for its cavalry and artillery, 

 but must depend on the holdings of livery stables and what can be 

 picked up in other ways. Very little systematic work has been done 

 in breeding horses for the militia. 



6. The mounted service of the Army is now being furnished in a 

 satisfactory manner with horses purchased and developed under the 

 remount system. 



7. An outbreak of war would necessitate at once more than twice 

 the number of horses now in the Regular Army, and hostilities would 

 probably require complete new issues every four to six months. 



8. The remount system is working satisfactorily, but it will never 

 be completely effective until steps are taken to alleviate the present 

 scarcity of horses of the type needed for military purposes and to 

 produce such horses in a systematic manner. 



9. The plan devised by the Agricultural and War Departments to 

 encourage the breeding of horses for the Army is necessary, because 

 horses of the proper type are not sufficiently numerous to supply the 

 Army in case of war, and the time may soon come when it will be 

 difficult to supply those needed in peace ; it is economical, because the 

 expense of the plan, averaged on the colts purchased, would be met 

 by value received, in the better quality of the colt, the fact that he 

 was bred for the purpose, that the Government would know what it 

 was getting, that the horses needed for the Army would be more 

 readily found, and on account of the beneficial effect on horse raising 



