HORSES IN WAR

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 24 May 1917, Page 3

HORSES IN WAR

The wastage of horses in war is enormous, and the problem of renewiug that wastage is not easy to solve, The Russians prior to the war owned 30,000,000 horses, or about one-half of the world's supply. In parts of Western Siberia there is a horse to every human being, while in some of the Russian provinces tha people rear herds of horses in place of cattle, arid mark's milk takes the place of cow's milk. In other provinces thero are large stud farms owned hy the Crown as well as others privately ownod. Countries which can muster a horse to every inhabitant are exceedingly rare. Hovne years ago the Germans collected statistics which showed that for the whole of Europe the average was about ten horses to every hundred inhabitants. Rustiia owned twenty three horses to every hundred inhabitants ; Austria came next with ten to ih.-> hundred, whdo France and Great Britain had each eight to the hunzted. '.Yhn d.it.ed •- tat;>s h;ui about t.venty-^iyiit' li^v.sbs to the hundred inli.Viitant.s, jind A.iistr.'>!i:i. fifty .sis. In the Av^nune there •.very 204 horses to he :--nt against every hundred oi; its people, and iv Uruguay th<> proportion re^chod the extraordinary number of 370 to a hundred.