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. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Exercise in Drawing Raising the Leg of a Restive Horse The French government takes the greatestpains to favor the production of good animals,as the country is lacking in good stock. Ithas even introduced a systemof premiums for remounts,which amounted in 1899 toone hundred and twenty-fivethousand francs (^25,000).These premiums are in pro-portion to the good qualitiesof the animals, but they can-not go beyond twenty-fivehundred francs (;^SOO) perhorse. The price of a remount THE HORSE ):> varies from twelve to eighteen Inin
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. Exercise in Drawing Raising the Leg of a Restive Horse The French government takes the greatestpains to favor the production of good animals,as the country is lacking in good stock. Ithas even introduced a systemof premiums for remounts,which amounted in 1899 toone hundred and twenty-fivethousand francs (^25,000).These premiums are in pro-portion to the good qualitiesof the animals, but they can-not go beyond twenty-fivehundred francs (;^SOO) perhorse. The price of a remount THE HORSE ):> varies from twelve to eighteen Inindred francs(S240 to $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 m
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