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Show Iff El CAVALRY liEEDlUITS artment of Agriculture forecasts Unusual Deft De-ft mand for Horses fisiA WELL SUPPLIED jther Powers Must Buy in jjjited States, Army Con- sumption Large nD(: the next decade there vil) lobsb y e aa increas0 demand for jencan horses n the countr es now JJed n the European war The de i jad ny ercn continue much, longer i ng to invest gators of the Un ted Utes department of agr culture as not jywill horses be needed for the jnues when peace is restored more $ bs needed for agr culture Already ftopean agents are sa d to be endeav nf to purchase horses in th s country id Canada and there s an ncreased iterest n many sect ons n horse breed l meet th s ncreased European de jtd Amer can farmers may well en a o to ra se well bred lior es al tough the department ot agr culture ft m not ad se then to purchase a sur hs of horses merely for breed ng pur l es. It merely advises that ord nary r inn work should be done whenever I is be by good mares which should bo I ij to good stall ons It also des res Kim has ze the fact that only horses Ipi qual ty may be profitably ra sed tli Inferior horses are a dr on the a let and the r product on is to be ikoo aged as much as the product on good horses should be encouraged Jpplied British lie Un ted States has prev ouslv been turn on to supplj European countr es uar In the Boer war 100 000 horses ere bo bt here bv the Br t sh govern ent, It may be doubted whether a iep go eminent could now obta n a u a s pply in th s country except at i svo cost However f farmers be pa ns to ut 1 ze their good mares ng th s w nter to breed them to good i ons n the course of several yearB me enough for the foals to develop me a wll be better able to meet the D opcan demand 6t s nahral that European co ntr es Ion d ook to the Un ted States for Irs s as nest to R sat has more of these an mala than any other country in the world The Un ted States and f us s a possess 58 per cent of the world sup ply Strange to say howe er there vere no horses or g nally on our cont nent and the present supply comes from stock brought over from Europe Can ada s supply is small compared to our own The German army reau res for a com plete mobilization 770 000 horses and on nSen0v army 18 8a d t0 reqn re ioo,000 wh ch figure, however probably ncludes onh those for the cavalry It s conservat vely est mated on good au thor ty that 1 000 000 horses are now engaged in the European -mar As the great major ty of these horses are not ncluded in the permanent m litary or gan zat on but are used for farm work and are requ s t oned by governments only when needed for m 1 tar purposes, tl e countr es of cont nental Europe will certa nly face an acute shortage of farm horses before next plant ng season, wh ch will ser o si affect the pr ce of horses the world over as soon as peace s declared Acco ding to the best informat on horses In the countries of Europe now at war number as fo oa Great Brtan 31 600 France s 2 000 Be glum 253 000 Germany 45 3 rjoo Austr a Hungary 4 374 rjoo Russ a '4 652 000 To a t 39 260 000 In add t on Eng and has a supply of about 6 000 000 to d aw on In her various dependenc es Russ a has about 10 000 000 In As a and Prance probab y 500 000 to 1 000 000 in her co on es ! War Consumption Tl e rapac ous consump on of horses in war is must ated by figures from our own civ 1 conn ct Dur ng h a Shenan doah vai ey campa gn Sheridan was sup p ed w th f esh horses at the rate of 150 per day In h s report for the year IS60 the quartermaster genera of the Un ted states army stated The serv ice of a cava ry 1 ore under an enter pr sing commander has averaged on y four mon hs Dur ng 1864 there n ere 500 horses consumed per day in the northern army w thout conside ng those captured and not reported Dur ng the e ght months of that year t e cavalry of the fPy of ths omao was remounted rSu red161" 7 0 h0r3eS a 1 bc mPrtrlk0" arT? furn shes a des rab e S ... he remount s em at least 5000 o ses requ red annually to supp y both the army and t e nat ona guard There "J about 20 000 horses n our reS lar army on a peace bas s In war manv more wou d be required before the flm engagement There is therefore as i ma ket for good horses Independent of I on ??p,an demand Even the lnva ta MR,!1" whoh haa reduced 5nber J boes on our streets has S?L n"ue"08d as demand In fact, thi prioe of horses has advanced along w th TTM?bore.au J anma Industry of the United S ates department of agr cu ture Was ngon D C stands ready to a d ranch s Jr. 6 day of the ar horse su tedTtno?see 2S2t hTn otlfersTn'l qaC,?3 here certain treedi do bet er fsk V" L Ty be stained for the are ored n prefe ence to ho ses an in should3 Ctm, f flrt class anma, fhnnlh ?i?d t ,reo.dy market abroad al tt2?.u, ISkno-t used on the con Unent to the extent that it is used here |