Show HAT WOULD ARMY DO FOR IFOR oi HORSES IN WAR TIME in Peace Difficulty Is Found in Supplying United States Sol Sol- dim js Suitable Mounts Three Mounts Three Chief Causes Are Use of Draft Horse lorse ore on Farm Use of Automobile in Cities and Export of Race Racehorse horse Following Laws Laws Government Government Stud is Pro- Pro Med ted led i BY F J J. J HASKIN reis eis a teat great deal of un uneasiness in circles over the tho problem of an ste t 1 of arm army hor horses es in the thet t 1 States Stites The Tho officials of theae the tho ae department declare that cavalry ca artillery mounted on ft hones horses would be bo next to l yet t t they thoy cannot see where a supply apply of lighter horses m may mayi y i tin MiLin in cue case of war Two prin prin- 1 nines us s have contributed to the JiA shortage of horses suit suit- r purposes rf The Tio o first of i ij js the tko remarkable success that attended tie efforts of tho depart depart- of agriculture to get ct the farmers farmr the Ole country to raise draft horse horses 1 other ij ii Lithe the tho automobile tho end of of the tho civil war the there c no so hea heavy dra draft l horses in In iud States Then followed an n not ot of f lor for farmer in it Wis pointed out that he lie would it to his bis interest to raise draft n ratier er than lighter animals animal Theof Theof The of education va was slow but it bees been II IQ sure lUre that now the farmers be fl t country are breeding draft almost exclusively Thoy They find J better su suited for farm farn k in tho the put past they have fo found foud d neb more mOlO attra attractive market for forro m ro horses horns of this kind than for of lighter weight e Other principal cause for the shortage hom e In m the thc number of ter lu hors hor hora is the tho automobile Peo- Peo Who ha used earr carriage o horses borMs a decade ID me ste the automobile now Mon Men who ye ya hid bad horses borMs a a. decade a ago agog o d g with a a. touring tourin car now result remit is J that the cit city demand demaud for forer er horses hones for carriages and saddle see oses sw has fallen off oft white while the tho dc- dc for Jor draft horses in iu spite of tho the g use use of the automobile truck C t to increase The of ol American menean industry has ha been go go- o. o towar foUd oven more rapidly than o of ot draft hor horses es and the theof i tag K of ot auto ante tracks tucks Horses Hones I tre re 1 Is another element elemont in the horse tia 11 that occasions alarm to the who would eo cc an adequate 1 1 of P military y hors horses s to meet meat tho the of a hi big war That is th the cx- cx tIn tuon of nearly nearl all of the country's z e stock The prohibition of race i gambling is admitted by most l to he be n rl ht a and d proper but it suited j in m dozens of ot the tho best sires country being to En Eug and aDd e giving those coun coun- jast jU that much advantage o over us n of a future supply of e. e department of a agriculture and r department havo have joined hands bands g t to Ret get et tho the horse noe breeders of or to br breed ed enough h li light ht s to m meet ct the hc hs prospective as well he e immediate demands demand of the tho ti II d States arm army arm U It t is the tho Pointed out i outbreak of hostilities in try ry would require OOOO Ji light lightf bt S at lonce once It is Fo pointed that f at ti number r of horses borMs needed fly j in the the case of war w would Id be large During D a y year car r of tho the t war the federal L government lit t nearly ho s and nd t the lie tire e i of more thau wa was re re- ome arn ne Ine This required a dail daily supply lIpply th tb horses hones During el eight jt I- I cavalry of the tho arm army of the Ie loDe was twice remounted horses borsi boin required e ci G General nral Phil Phi c n the of ear eav- to be the army of Shenandoah t r remounted ever every four months that if had of wc we to toon fight bf such auch COnsequence on quence as to require orus f for tor 0 officers l ca cavalry valry and artillery at t one time time- it il would Y a year to keep the thc supply tbt at to to non Boer War oft admit that they do 1 SOW nw r where hero ch 51 a supply would point to tho fact Geat Britain bT bTu bou u bt more than horses i In Ln the United St States ea J the tes for tor tora e Boer var and a that even went nt a lou ou wa toward way Dt the v shortage oC hor s of ot the now exists in the da Prior to the i Hoer floer war r 8 content to on the h r Unit d et for its rte t the let Itse of ns that war warI I c. c t t the tho have fol lowed owed the lead of continental Europe I Ind nd ind arc are no now spending a year ear I in encouraging lD the breeding of army horses at home Thc plan plau which the thc department nt of agriculture and the war department have bao worked out to lend lead effective encouragement t to tho the breeding of arm army horses involves in a government stud of ot a hundred horses borses about fifty of them thoroughbreds twenty five standard breeds fifteen saddle horses and ten ten mor morgans morgana These horses would be distributed through h four districts especially especially es cs suited for breeding arm army horse s horses and the tho colts from these horses would 1 be Le subject to an n option of the government at three years of ago It 11 estimated is 15 that the maintenance of this stud would cost ost 2 OOOO for the first t year and a year there after Other Nations Do It Other governments spend mono money freely in encouraging nt the breeding of army horses Germany is ahead of ol all others Tho government o stud dud consists ls of nearly horses and amon among them arc aro included More rore and Ard Patrick Pat Pat- rick the English Derby winners of ot 1897 1891 and 1902 1903 respectively h For these two horses th the tho Prussian government paid France is almost as well situated as Germany in the number of sires fires of tile the army horse horBe type owned by t the tho he govern govern- merit ment Austria spent nearly neally a million dollars dollare in in a single le year recently in pro pro- the breeding of horses suitable for fel the army In Europe th the tho pf prices ct's paId by the government for arm army horses is hi higher bor than in America In InlO lO O tho prevailing price in Prussia was For year three in Bavaria Bava Bava- Tin ria the price was 2 3 and for four four- year olds it was The Thc United States army P pays about abolt a a. Jie heart head for year three year year-od d horses Buy Direct From Irom Farmers Th The Tho mounted service ice of t f the regular army is no now bein being supplied with horses which are bou bought bt young youn developed and trained at the tho rc regular lar remount depots and issued tot tOr the tho troops at ages rangin rang Tans in inc ing from 4 41 to 5 years ean properly trained and read ca y for work Tho The remount re rc mount depots depot were first established in in 1908 1903 The Tho horses for these depots arc are purchased directly from tit farmers instead of through h middlemen under the fhe contract system The mounted service ervice ervi c bad a great reat many unsatisfactory unsatisfactory tory ton horses which had b been en bou bought ht under under un un- un der the tho old oll contract system but these arc are gradually being weeded out O and ond replaced ced with better hor horses os brou brought ht into ito the tho service through the remount d depots pots The first remount station to be e es established wa was wa one at Fort Reno Okla OkJa A k year ar lat later r a asim sim similar station wa was established es at Fort Keogh Mont lont tont the tho military appropriation bill bin for 1912 carried carrica an app appropriation o of OO for the purchase of lands for a remount re roo mount station at Fort Ro Roal al Va Itis It Itis Itis is asserted b by the tho army officials that I Ith tho th remount station tation system has every thing in it its favor faor and that it it- meets I with all the demands of the army ar biJ biJon on a peace footing but buL that it wilt will not be a adequate for lor developing a stock of army typo horses t sufficient to meet tho the tremendous demands s of or a war New York Pays More While the thc United States cavalry is fair fairly well mounted it would never figure in in tho the ribbon class clat s in in a contest with home other bodies Lodics of mounted Americans For instance it is is said that tho the mounted police force of New NewYork ew York City is tho the best mounted boa body of men Inca in the United States About seventy five new horses are re brought into the force every year rear and the tho prices paid are aro about double those paid by bythe bythe bytho the tho army arnu for cavalry purposes The Tho force forM ha has nearly SOl horses and the aera average e price per head is 37 O. O These hors horses are bought under uDder contract contract con tract from a single firm inn and arc said t to be principally of trotting bred stock Only about half the thc h horses purchased by the tho contractor ar arc able ahl to measure up to the specifications of the thc police department which includes a thirty day tc test t service con conditions condi condi- i. i in iii tho the department Not ot only onh does docs the regular army havo have its difficulties with the thc remount problem but the militia as well The militia artillery and cavalry have bavo even greater difficulty in setting otting suitable horses Squadron C Brooklyn rooklyn N. N Y national guard in is in solving thc the problem in part by owning and conducting a breeding farm where it its ita remount horses are arc bred For most militia or aniz however tho tim hired h horse horz na nab is b a a. necessity even if tf ho he is a flo source r of pain anti and discomfort to his rider and a heavy expense to the state It is a strange fact bet that while whilo th the United States has more horses than any other country on the tho globe except Rusia and while whilo there were plenty of horses to supply the vast vast demand domand o oboth of both armies in th the civil war tho the rise of tho the draft horse and the decline of the tho lighter horse leaves America with witha a smaller visible and prospective c pup pup- lp pl ph of arm army typo type horseflesh than an any other principal country The war department department de dc- feels fecs that American cavalry mounted on horses of ot draft dratt stuck breeding would stand tand precious J Ji U of ot offsetting foreign n cavalry mounted on real cavalry horses |