. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE HORSE 133 According to a record made in 1901, the number of liorses employed by the great military powers is as follows : In Times ny Peace France . 143,000 Russia 140,000 Germany I 25,000 Italy . . So,000 Austria . 78,000 England . 19,000 United States 7,43'5 N â riMi:s ,iE War 400,000 450,000 400 000 -45 000 250 000 70 000 1,000 ,000 On all sides we find a tendency to stop the buying of war horses in foreign countries, each country seeking
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE HORSE 133 According to a record made in 1901, the number of liorses employed by the great military powers is as follows : In Times ny Peace France . 143,000 Russia 140,000 Germany I 25,000 Italy . . So,000 Austria . 78,000 England . 19,000 United States 7,43'5 N â riMi:s ,iE War 400,000 450,000 400 000 -45 000 250 000 70 000 1,000 ,000 On all sides we find a tendency to stop the buying of war horses in foreign countries, each country seeking to supph' its own re- mounts. One of the great cares of all militar)' powers should be to have at their disposal, in case of war, as many horses as possible. Yet the different European states do not all remount in the same manner. Prussia, which requires annually nine thousand re- mount horses, buys them, when three or four years old, within its own borders, especially in eastern Prussia, and also a few in Han- over. They are then divided among seven- teen remount stations, each of which covers from about twenty-two hundred to four thou- sand acres of land, so that the animals never suffer from want of movement in fresh air. Saxony needs twelve hundred remounts annually, which she obtains ecjually from eastern Prussia and Hanover. She has five stations,three of which have existed for nearly three centuries. Wiirttemburg demands annually five hundred remounts, which are bought of two ages (four to six, and three to four) and sent to Breithiilen,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed. Boston, Ginn & Company
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