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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



developed. Perhaps the most noted of these are the 

 East Prussian or Trakehnen horse, Hanoverian horse, 

 Holstein horse, Oldenburg horse. East Friesland horse, 

 and the Schleswig horse. 



The East Prussian or Trakehnen horse. — East Prussia 

 has more horses to the square mile, omitting tov^^ns of 

 over 10,000 inhabitants, than any other part of Germany. 



FIG. 88.— GERMAN COACH STALLION "LANDGRAF" 



It supplies annually from 4,000 to 5,000 remounts to the 

 Prussian army. The most important horse breeding cen- 

 ter in East Prussia is the stud of Trakehnen, founded in 

 1732 by Frederick William I, King of Prussia, and father 

 of Frederick the Great. He established this stud with 

 1,101 horses from the royal studs. There -were many 

 importations from the East and a few English Thorough- 

 breds added to the stud from time to time. The East 



