Show IN WARFARE equine quadruped i necessary Ne ceery at t tir the fr nt ut the horse is not to become dobso lete after all that is so long as there are wars automobiles and electric cars may drive him from town and country but the army is still 1 left tor for him one thing that the present war in south arlica has emph emphasized asiz ed is the value of mobility in troops and mo bality can only come through mounted infantry and mounted infantry needs horses here incidentally lies a new market tor for canadian horses and one that may not be unworthy ot of attention the last official report of edwin M stanton secretary ot of war in president lincoln s cabinet gives some faint conception of the enormous tion of 0 horses and mules entailed by active hostilities on a I 1 large larze scale dur ing s ich 1 I titanic war as that between the northern and southern states state a of the american union which lasted from april 1861 to may 1865 the report in q kestion Is dated washing ton march 1 1865 and contains lis the following striking passage the sup ply of horses and mules to our armies has aas long been at the rate jot of per day dav which is aloo alpo the average rate of heir their destruction the cavalry of the army of the potomac was twice re mounted during the first eight months of 1864 the resources of supply in this country were able to bear the 1 am in mense drains upon its horses and mules and judging from current ces the stock shows no symptoms of exhaustion or diminution an army in the field well equipped with artillery cavalry and trains requires one horse or mule to every two men the 32 num um her ber of horses and mules iii our art armalea les is nearly equal if the calculation of mr b stanton tanton the american secretary of war in 1865 be IN correct british troops now en in fighting the boers would need 50 horses and mules to keep them g ling ang philadelphia times t |