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AMERICAN ARMY MOUNTS INFERIOR. Aseoag atodera araalea the United states is one .i :ii. wont niount.ii in the world. OOseera chars-era, which should Ik- handsome and powerful animals. do not compare well with I boat to be seen in the British and Continental amah ■ Anyone who baa Halted the Bone Shaw in New Ion must have been struck by the superiority of foreign horses in the mllltarj competitions. Tile American officers and themselves at a disadvantage, BOt I suae they ride badly, bin because the foreign oaVtri are better moemted. It may be nue that tin Americana do not give si. niu.-ii attention to hurdle Jumping as a sport. but the fael remains that with rare exceptions the boraea they ride are not as well bred for speed, spiiit and stamina as the British and Continental en trie*. For this adverse condition there are two substantial reasons. Daring the Boer war the British government bought la the United states Hio.ooO horses for us. la the campaign in south Africa. The supply of good animals was depleted and their price rose sharply. Tin- second reasoa is that antiracing legislation in many of the stales discouraged the industry of breeding and compelled owners ..f tine racing stock !.. send their beat boraea to England and the continent, where the turf bat unassailable standing M an Institution. Whole stables were shipped to the other side. Including a great many valuable stallions and broodmares. The depreciation in the quality of horses used by civilians for lidiiiL. and driving purposes is a general complaint. If civilians of wealth find difficulty in obtaining thoroughbred boraea to suit them, what mast th. problem of army officers, who cannot afford to pay high prices for special mounts, and for the War Department, which must have oa hand about 20,000 horses for the cavalry and artillery and miscellaneous use* on a war footing 50.0001 Tin- Gi i ma a government breeds horses oa ■ large scale fur the army on live breeding farms and eighteen stallions depots iu the Kingdom of Prussia. Large sums are paid for tine stallions, and it is the besl economy, For Gaitee afore, the Derby winner ! 1807, 008.670 was paid, ami for Aid Patrick, the winner in 1802, *100.000. In Prance there are twenty two "haras, " or cen-tiai studs, tor the Improve meat af the breed of boraea oader government supervision, and the ham bet uf Deputies votes nearly ,000,000 a year tor the production of thoroughbreds. In Prance the government offers prizes for horse shows and actively encourages racing. Austria spends about ,000,000 l year and has established several gnat breeding farms. One of them at Meaobegyes comprises 50,086 acres of land and 8,000 nun arc employed there. Until recently England found boraea fee bat army in the United States and the colonies, but now the Board of Agriculture makes grants to encoarage the breeding of military horses. in the end. it is our opinion, the government will have to go into the breeding of military horses, di-rectly and not through the agency of the Department Of Agriculture, as is the practice in England, France and Germany. The necessity is becoming greater with the constant depletion of the best racing stock. a condition that the European governments are not cotili outed with. New York Sun.
