. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. OF The St.\tve of the SilentAT Tiir: HACiCE a remount station founded in 1S98. The other German states obtain their militar\- horses from Prussia. Italy has an annual need of thirty-six hundred remounts for her one hundred and forty-foursquadrons of cavalry and hertwenty-six artillery she drew them ingreat ])art from Hungary, Ger-man) , and Denmark, but sincethe \ear 1S88 she has obtainedthem within her own ) are mostly bought as foalsand brought up at the remounts
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. OF The St.\tve of the SilentAT Tiir: HACiCE a remount station founded in 1S98. The other German states obtain their militar\- horses from Prussia. Italy has an annual need of thirty-six hundred remounts for her one hundred and forty-foursquadrons of cavalry and hertwenty-six artillery she drew them ingreat ])art from Hungary, Ger-man) , and Denmark, but sincethe \ear 1S88 she has obtainedthem within her own ) are mostly bought as foalsand brought up at the remountstations. In 1897 urgent needobligetl the government to im-port one thousand remount ani-mals from Hungary. 134 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS. Remounts The system of remount as applied in Norwayis peculiar. The necessary horses are deli\eredby the owners of certain farms, whoare legally bound to supply bond, or obligation, is ver}-ancient, and dates back probably tothe time when the nobles wereobliged in times of war to furnishtheir sovereign with a certain num-ber of horse and foot soldiers. In Sweden, where the number ofmilitary horses is about six thousand,they have an annual need of fivehundred and forty remounts, whichare all bought in the interior of thecountry, at an age varying from threeto six years ; part of them are formetlimmediately into a corps, the restbeing sent to the remount stations. France needs annually fifteenthousand young horses ; those forthe cavalry are bought when three years anda half old and sent to the stations, whereas thedraft horses are five years old when bought, and are then sent directly tothe regiments. These horsesare chiefly drawn from Nor-mandy. The French remountstations dif
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