HORSES IN WAR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 249, 9 February 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

HORSES IN WAR.

rr; J ho wastage of horses in war is enormous, and the problem of renewing that wastago 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 Sibera there is a horse to every human being, whilo in somo of the Russian provinces the ]K'pole rear herds of horses in place of cattle, and mare's_milk takes the place of cow's m:lk. In other provinces tbero are large stud farms owned by the Crown, as well as others privately owned.

Countries whien can muster a horse to every inhabitant are exceedingly rare. Somo years ago the Germans collected statistics w'lic-h showed that for the whole of Europe the average iva.s about ten horses to every hundred inhabitants. Russia owned twenty-three Oioi-ses to every hundred inhabitants; Austria came next with ten to the hundred, whilo France and Great Britain had each e'ght to the hundred. Hie United States had about twentv-eight horses to the hundred inhabitants, and Australia fifty-six. In tTie Argentine there were 204 horses to be set against everv hundred of its people, and in Ttruguay tho proportion reached the extraordinary number of .'J7O to a hundred.