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TASK OF SUPPLYING ARMY MOUNTS Not Only for Present Needs but for Future One of Problems of the Day Washington D C July 8 The task of supply ¬ ing mounts for Uncle Sams troopers is one of the problems of the day It is not alone a matter of supplying a sufficient number of remounts for the cavalry are of the service for present day needs Tlie question lf a reserve of the proper type for the future bulks large in the foreground colonel John S Fair of the Quartermaster Corps has this most important work in hand for the Federal gov ¬ ernment Colonel Fair is in intimate touch with horse conditions throughout the United States an1 no man speaks with greater knowledge of the countrys needs in the matter of riding horse type He realizes that it is from the quick active fami ¬ lies of which tlie thoroughbred standard bred and Morgan are representatives that the remount supply must be drawn Colonel Fairs plea for an accel ¬ erated campaign of remount production should carry weight with breeders in every part of the Union and make them eager to assist the government governmentI I think said he today that we were all beguiled into a feeling of security by the census of 1910 which announced that there were 22000000 horses in the United States It was not uiitil we were at war ourselves that tlie fact struck Miome that a large proportion of these were draught breeds and that cavalry remount material was exceedingly scarce Transport and gun horses we have in abuiut ance thanks to the importation of Percheron ami other draught breeds but in tlie matter of the riding horse aimless and puriwseless breeding out ¬ side of a few regions has reduced our standard to mediocrity There IIRS not been that systematic effort in liorse production which is a feature of the economic development of most foreign govern ¬ ments notably that of France which is generally recognized as a model for the world The only helpful influence I know of that has been constant is that exercised by the breeding bureau of the Jockey Club in New York State and a similar or ¬ ganization on more restricted lines in Kentucky
