. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Hold !. The Republican Guard, Full Dress Portugal, with four thou-sand military horses, needsfour hundred remountsannually, which are boughtat home wherever they canbe had without attachingmuch importance to qual-ity. They are from threeto seven years old whenbought, and the youngestare sent to the remountstation of Villa Vi^osa. Servia, which in times ofpeace maintains six thou-sand cavalry, draws herremounts chiefly from Rus-sia and Austria. Turkey possesses (onpaper) in times of peacea force of three thousandcavalry.
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Hold !. The Republican Guard, Full Dress Portugal, with four thou-sand military horses, needsfour hundred remountsannually, which are boughtat home wherever they canbe had without attachingmuch importance to qual-ity. They are from threeto seven years old whenbought, and the youngestare sent to the remountstation of Villa Vi^osa. Servia, which in times ofpeace maintains six thou-sand cavalry, draws herremounts chiefly from Rus-sia and Austria. 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
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