HOUSES IN WAR.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 31, Issue 27, 8 April 1919, Page 4

HOUSES IN WAR.

The wastage of horses in war is enormous and the problem of renewing 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 the people rear herds of horses instead of cattle, and mares' milk takes the place of cows' milk. In other provinces there are large stud farms owned by the Crown, as well, as others privately owned. Countries which can muster a horse to every inhabitant are exceedingly fare. Some years ago the Germans collected statistics which showed that for the whole of Europe the average was about ton horses to every hundred inhabitants. Russia owned twenty-three horses to every hundred inhabitants; Austria came next with ten to the hundred; while France and Great Britain had eight to the hundred. The United States had about twenty-eight horses to the hundred inhabitants, and Australia fifty-six. In the Argentine there were 204 horses to be set against every hundred of its people, and in Uruguay the proportion reached the extraordinary number ctf 370 to the hundred.