THE HORSE 



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According to a record made in 1901, the 

 number of liorses employed by the great 

 military powers is as follows : 



In Times ny Peace 



On all sides we find a tendency to stop the 

 buying of war horses in foreign countries, 

 each country seeking to supph' its own re- 

 mounts. One of the great cares of all militar)' 

 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 ecjually 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 Breithiilen, 



Types of Cavalry Horses 



Tiuc St.atue of Wn.i.LA^i the Silent 

 AT Thic Hague 



a remount station founded in rSgS. The other 



German states obtain their militar)' horses 



from Prussia. 



Italy has an annual need of thirt\ -six hundred 



remounts for her one hundred and f()rl\--fi)ur 

 squadrons of ca\'alr3' and her 

 twenty-six artillery regiments. 

 Formerly she drew them in 

 great part from Hungary, Ger- 

 man}', and Denmark, but since 

 the \'ear 1S88 she has obtained 

 them within her own borders. 

 They are mostly bought as toals 

 and brought up at the remount 

 statit)ns. In 1897 urgent need 

 obliged the government to im- 

 port one thousand remount ani- 

 mals from Hungar)'. 



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