. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. m-ber of horse and foot soldiers. In Sweden, where the number ofmilitary horses is about six thousand,they have an annual need of fivehundred and forty remounts, whichare all bought in the interior of thecountry, at an age varying from threeto six years ; part of them are formetlimmediately into a corps, the restbeing sent to the remount stations. France needs annually fifteenthousand young horses ; those forthe cavalry are bought when three years anda half old and sent to the stations, whereas thedraft horses are five years o
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. m-ber of horse and foot soldiers. In Sweden, where the number ofmilitary horses is about six thousand,they have an annual need of fivehundred and forty remounts, whichare all bought in the interior of thecountry, at an age varying from threeto six years ; part of them are formetlimmediately into a corps, the restbeing sent to the remount stations. France needs annually fifteenthousand young horses ; those forthe cavalry are bought when three years anda half old and sent to the stations, whereas thedraft horses are five years old when bought, and are then sent directly tothe regiments. These horsesare chiefly drawn from Nor-mandy. The French remountstations differ from those ofnearly all other are there trained anddelivered, properly taught, tothe regiments, whereas innearly all other countries foodand proper care is all that thegovernments give to theirremounts. In fact, in somecountries there is a practice of allowing con-tractors to feed and care for the young
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