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varies from twelve to eighteen hundred francs Switzerland has an annual need of six Inin- 



($240 to $360), so that a single horse may dred remounts, which arc bought in northern 

 possibly cost the state forty-three hundred Germany and Ireland. Tlie young horses spend 

 francs ($860). 



Because of these measures, and of the fact 

 that three thousand stallions are jjlaced at the 

 disposal of breeders and divided among all 

 the stations, the French government succeeds 





in supplying itself with remounts from the 

 home country. These stallions, ho\ve\'er, cost 

 the country eight million francs (Jili ,600,000) 

 annually, while in other ways more than six- 

 teen million ($3,200,000) are expended each 

 year on the breeding and training of military 

 horses. 



Austria-Hungary requires annually eight 

 thousand remounts, which are easy to find 

 within the borders of that country. In 1890 

 the government began to establish remount 

 stations, which now number five. One part of 



the remounts remain there a ^-ear ; the other five months in getting acclimated at the re- 

 part, bought when five vears of age, are sent mount station at Berne. They are then sent to 

 immediately to the various regiments. a school for remounts to be trained. Forriicii)' 



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