. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. 360), so that a single horse maypossibly cost the state forty-three hundredfrancs (S860). Because of these measures, and of the factthat three thousand stallions are placed at thedisposal of breeders and divided among allthe stations, the French government succeedsin supplying itself with remounts from thehome country. These stallions, however, costthe country eight million francs ($1,600,000)annually, while in other ways more than six-teen million (^3,200,000) are expended eachyear on the breeding and training of militaryhors
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. 360), so that a single horse maypossibly cost the state forty-three hundredfrancs (S860). Because of these measures, and of the factthat three thousand stallions are placed at thedisposal of breeders and divided among allthe stations, the French government succeedsin supplying itself with remounts from thehome country. These stallions, however, costthe country eight million francs ($1,600,000)annually, while in other ways more than six-teen million (^3,200,000) are expended eachyear on the breeding and training of militaryhorses. Austria-Hungary requires annually eightthousand remounts, which are easy to findwithin the borders of that country. In 1890the government began to establish remountstations, which now number five. One part ofthe remounts remain there a year; the otherpart, bought when five years of age, are sentimmediately to the various regiments. Switzerland has an annual need of six hun-dred remounts, which are bought in northern(German) and Ireland. The young horses spend. A OF THE REPUBLICAN GUARD five months in getting acclimated at the re-mount station at Berne. They are then- sent toa school for remounts to be trained. Formerly
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