The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-27
HORSES FOR CAVALRY USE
Germany Understands the Problem Of
Finding Them Better Than Any
Other Country.

The problem of supplying the cav
airy with new horses to take the place
of those grown old or disabled in ser.
vice, says the author of "The Cavalry
Horse" is better solved in Germany
than in any other country, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
The foundation of the solution in eV.
cry land is thorough knowledge o.
the horse population Our own CEN
sus report shows more than q, 1000, 00f
of horses of all sorts and ages. Our
army needs 5000 annually for all puT-
poses and buys them on contract, pay
ing an average price of SIS. The cayal.
ry horses are the best of these They
are bought when five years old. and
price for them is above the average
In the American army each cavalry
man has his own animal and trains il
himself
Russia, the only nation which hat
more horses than America, counts 25,.
100000 in Europe and Asia. The Rus
sian government buys very young
horses and trains them hard, with the
exception of those for Cossack regi.
ments The Cossacks are master train.
ers and educate their own horses. Great
Britain and France each has 100000
horses. France, with an annual IRE.
mount" in time of peace Of $1,000
horses, had to buy in America in this
war of 1871.
Great Britain uses only about 20o(
remounts q year and does not supply
every cavalryman with a horse IN
deed, for $4,000 cavalrymen in the Brit
ish army there are but 10000 horses
This proportional is maintained on thu
theory that a certain percentage Of
unfit for duty and do not need mounts
Austria has horse population OF
nearly 100000, but the government
maintains its own breeding farms fol
cavalry horses. In Germany the mat.
ter of obtaining remounts has been re.
duced to an almost perfect system IN
der government paternalism. The gov.
eminent provides fine bred stations al
convenient posts throughout the coun.
try and in return for this service ey.
cry horse owner is required to bring
his animal to the local "horse muster
once in ten years. From the muster
are exempt stations, horses under foul
years cid or those which are blind IL
both eyes, mares with foal and horsei
working In mines. The muster server
to show exactly the available 'thorst
strength Of the nation.
Horses are bought every summer BY
commissions of veterinary surgeons
and army officers. They pay about $18t
each for horses between three and foub
years of age, and send them on tria
to four depots, where there are KEEP
one year under scientific training tt
develop the characteristics necessary
to cavalry horses. Nine thousand arr
needed each year, but I'VE per cent
more are bought.
They run in paddoeks and sheds OF
the depot farms, are groomed ten min
utes day and fed the regular ration
OF IL pounds of hay, seven and a hal:
of oats and Is of straw each day, will
green food part of the year. Each reg.
iment has certain number of horse:
condemned each year and send squat
to the depot for an equal number O
new horses. There is always a reserve
Of several thousand in the government
depots and in an emergency a eonsid.
cradle reserve force can be mounted
without the uncertainty due to buyin,
an contract.