Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-15

other mounted military work
IA Calling Tor an Initial appropriation
Iof 100000 and an annual expenditure
thereafter Of 100000 for = period Of
years for the extension Of this system
d bill introduced BY Representative
Thomas J. Scully Of New Jersey is now
awaiting action by the house commit
tee on agriculture. The figures In the
bill represent the estimates made by
experts of the agriculture and war de-
partments as to the amount necessary
to give adequate force to the plan. Rep
resentative Scnlly, after consultation
with civilian and military experts, also
has introduced a resolution calling upon
the house military affairs committee
for an investigation to determine
whether the present plan should be
supplemented in any way.
Matter Of Preparedness.
"The department Of agriculture has
taken the position that the object Of
the remount system Is to raise horses
for purely military purposes, and that
therefore the system should be directed
by the war department" said Mr..
Scully yesterday.
"The fact. Of the matter Is that the
war department is only asking the
breeding to be encouraged Of horses
which every user of q horse for any
thing except heavy draught work de-
mands; that the scrub stock of this
country be weeded out by the offering
of pure bred stations to the farmers.
The war department hopes to benefit
only incidentally in time Of peace, as
the peace requirements In horse flesh
can very easily be taken care of. and In
time of war, when the need of the war
is the need Of the entire
country, where will the line be drawn
between the duty of one department.
and another? $40 ~ =
1T is a matter Of preparedness, and
as such a matter OF particular interest
at this time, but 1t is q matter of peace
as well as Of war. 1t Is
a matter Of improvement from which
all may benefit. ,"H-... 3D..
1.-THE United States, next to Russia,
leads the world In the production OF
And yet our horses are now
of such poor type, the foreign buyers
coming over here are able despite the
desperate need of their country, to pur-
chase horses for military purposes at
about 500 a f1ead-tnar Is not to the
farmer. = .-.. - .
1--WE are the only powerful-poten-
tially-nation which has neglected the
breeding Of sound horses. Since the
system was adopted with the
purchase of about forty stations three
years ago. we have expended less than
$50 000-and even this small expert
ment has been unqualifiedly successful.
Germany spends almost as much for
o-o c;r~lo 60 1ior fvoNuonflv and in
/ GOT she had 1915 government stations,
among them such English thorough
breds as Glates More. the Derby win
ner Of 1897, for which $66.s40 was paid,
and Ard Patrick, winner Of the 1902
Derby. for which 100000 was paid.
The breeding farms Of the Austro- Hun
garian government surpass those of all
other nations; even Italy has $40 stall
|ions--600 more than. we have-stand-
ing for the sole purpose of improving
the breed of horses in the country.
France has 1921 government stations,
Of which only $50 are Of draft horse
type. In the year 1906. France spent
more than 100000 to improve the
breed of her horsefesh. And England,
learning too late the necessity OF this
sind of preparedness, is now our larg-
EST buyer of horsefiesh; France buys
some: Germany, and Austro- Hungary
are finding enough in their
own country. And yet England a few
years ago was forced to make grant
IF $780, 900 to encourage the breeding
If horses for military use at home
but OF course the plan, was not COM
nenced soon enough to prepare her in
that respect for the big war.
Benefits Army and Farmer.
"And herein lies the benefit to army
and farmer--the army. gets a better
horse; the farmer gets better price
for those he sells, and more work at
ess expense for those he keeps. Ths|l
United States army now pays about
half what the Prussian government. for
instance. pays its farmers for re-
the American farmer
seldom has the type wanted. while the
Prussian farmer. thanks to the efforts
Of his government has exactly that
type. - : +. 80. st.. -
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