. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. - 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 three and four years of age andspend one year at Millingen in large stables that communicate with vast fields, where theycan run at liberty. Nourishing food, muchexercise, and fresh air jTrepare these horses. HOKSF. OK .\ . OI I K 138 OUR DOME
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. - 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 three and four years of age andspend one year at Millingen in large stables that communicate with vast fields, where theycan run at liberty. Nourishing food, muchexercise, and fresh air jTrepare these horses. HOKSF. OK .\ . OI I K 138 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS wonderfully well for their work. After passinganother six months in training at the regimen-tal stations they are drafted into the squadronsor the batteries. VI. Hunting After war came hunting as the next neces-sity in which men learned to use horses, as we see by the statues and engrav- - -t- ings that represent to usSt. George hunting thedragon and cominvictorious fromthe fight. / The de-structionof dgerousand Hunting has always been an English passionwhich, like many other sports and bodily exer-cises, has passed from Great Britain to theContinent and to America. This explains whythe English have applied themselves especiallyto the breeding of hunting horses. The countryitself, by the lay of its land, is very favorable tocynegetic exercises, having few cur\es and many-^:^gj^,^_^__^ plains with only such obstacles andbarriers as a horse can annals of huntingEngland are veryinteresting tothose whohave a tas
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