HORSES IN WAR.
The wastage of horses in war is •nor*' <■ mo us, and the problem of renewing thai wastage^ not easy to solve; /Theßu»-U i sians prior to the war owasrf 30,000,00<r * iiorses, or about one haUMtff the world's 7 s «PP*y. In parts of Western t SibeH* » there is a horse to. every human being while in some of the Russian province! the pepole rear herds of horses in placft % of cattle, and mare's milk takes tbV V place^of cow's milk. , Jjjr othfer provinces therefor* large fitudlarnw owned by th« Crown, as well as" ot/hers jprivatelir owned. -.._.. "
Countries .whieDucan muster a hors© to *' every inhabitant are exceedingly rare. Sx)me years.ago the Germans.collectwfi i statistics wnich showed that for th«, .' whole of Europe the average was about! > ten horses to every hundred inhabitants. |' Russia o^ed W .ft every:.. ;-&pndredV, iDTiabitahte; Austria J came next with ten to" the hundred, V while France and Great Britain had } each eight to the hundred. The United v" btates had aboiit twenty-eight horses * to the hundred inhabitants, and Australia fifty-six,.^ the Argentine there ' were 204 horses to be set against every, hundred of its people, and in Uruguay -' the proportion reached the extraordinary number of 370 to a hundred
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 8 February 1917, Page 5
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