. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. tria. Turkey possesses (onpaper) in times of peacea force of three thousandcavalry. The remounts arebought from Russia andHungary, when there hap-pens to be money enoughto do so. The Turks appearto attach more importance to cheapness thanto quality. In Russia, according to the system of re-mounting employed until January i, 1901, theofficers on remount duty bound them-selves to deliver the horses at amedium price, and in so doing playedthe part of horse jockeys. At pres-ent Russian remounting is done inthe German manner, that
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. tria. Turkey possesses (onpaper) in times of peacea force of three thousandcavalry. The remounts arebought from Russia andHungary, when there hap-pens to be money enoughto do so. The Turks appearto attach more importance to cheapness thanto quality. In Russia, according to the system of re-mounting employed until January i, 1901, theofficers on remount duty bound them-selves to deliver the horses at amedium price, and in so doing playedthe part of horse jockeys. At pres-ent Russian remounting is done inthe German manner, that is to say,by military commissions for the pur-chase of animals. A certain numberof horses are drawn from the studfarms of the state. Some regimentsbuy their own mounts, the Cossackregiments furnishing theirs and pro-viding for them in every government encourages thebreeding of the Cossack horses bydistributing three hundred stallionsannually among the Cossack in times of peace countstwelve thousand cavalry, and fifty THE HORSE 137. thousand in times of war. Her remounts comechiefly from Hungary, only a few being obtainedwithin her own borders. Belgium has more than ten thousand horses,and her annual remount is one thousand ; thedraft or transportation horses are easily derivedfrom the Ardennes. The breeding of cavalryhorses is encouraged to the utmost by thegovernment. England has an annual need of nearly threethousand remounts, which it is easy to obtainin that country itself. The government takesno interest in breeding, except in the poorestdistricts of Ireland, where it has stationed afew Hackney stallions. , having a cavalry force of eighthorses, finds little difficult}- in the matter ofremounts. The Netherlands has eight thousand militaryhorses, of which all those for the cavalry andartillery come from Ireland, while about a hun-dred heavier horses are annually bought in theprovinces of Groningen and Gelderland. Theyare bought at
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