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REMOUNT SERVICE TO BE PERMANENT Board of Army Officers and Civilians Appointed to Supervise Breeding Operations for Government WASHINGTON D C June 7 The United States will have a permanent supply of horses of the type most useful for military as well as general purpose usage when plans now being formulated by the Federal authorities are carried to fruition The movement which has the wholehearted support of the remount service which is to be made a per ¬ manent organization and the Bureau of Animal Husbandry is along lines of demonstrated success While successWhile the War and Agricultural departments will father the system it is the intention to en ¬ list the cooperation of representative fanners and horse breeders in every section of the United States It is hoped that by such a combination of intelli ¬ gent forces to establish in America a type of horse that will be second to none anywlrere A board of fourteen composed equally of governmental au ¬ thorities and civilian experts will prepare a pro ¬ gram of breeding operations and will disseminate propaganda which will enable the breeders of the country to operate intelligently Special premiums yill be offered for colts sired by government stal ¬ lions at as many fairs live stock and horse shows as possible in localities where these sires are available availableA A remount service will be established as a Dart of the permanent establishment The function of the remount service will be to supply the army with horses and mules This will include the purchase assembly at remount depots distribution to or ganzations administrations of depots disposition of animals unserviceable or surplus shipments of remounts by rail or water breeding and the en ¬ couragement of breeding by farmers and stockmen stockmenBEMOTTNT BEMOTTNT SERVICE TO FURNISH SIBES SIBESThe The remount service will furnish the stallions to lie used for service with selected mares of farmers stockmen and others at a nominal fee so as to en ¬ courage and stimulate the production of animals which may be used for military purnoses as well as to promote the improvement of those used in the ordinary pursuits of agriculture and trade Regu ¬ lations governing the placing of stallions the desig ¬ nation of stud fees and all other details connected with this enterprise will be determined by the permanent board or by the remount service serviceThe The stallions used should be of the type which mares wllr produce a liorse snitablet fee hiilitaryv purposes This is particularly necessary for the production of horses for the cavalry and riding horses for other branches of the service The uni ¬ versal use of the automobile has to a great extent discouraged the breeding of the type of horse which is suitable as a remount This type of horse will however find a place on farms and in cities as long producedIt as he is produced It will be recommended that these stallions shall be placed so as not to disrupt or interfere with the business of those whose livelihood depends on enterprises of similar nature State universi ¬ ties agricultural societies county agents prominent farmers breeders and horsemen will all have a part in the prosecution of the work and it will be but a short time before scientific horse breeding will have been established on a permanent basis in this country countryIt It is considered that 300 stallions will eventually be necessary to produce the requisite annual re ¬ placement of remounts for one field army These should be acquired by an appropriation on the part of congress for the purpose or acceptance by gift of not more than fifty stallions each year After the maximum number has been acquired the annual replacement will call for approximately fifty stal ¬ lions a year thereafter thereafterSTATIONS STATIONS AND OFFICERS OF BOABD BOABDThe The above plan bad its inception last year when it was demonstrated that there was a severe short ¬ age of military horses in the United States The acquirement by purchase and through donations of the Jockey Club and gentlemen interested in racing of fifty head of thoroughbred sires followed These were placed at the federal remount depots at Forts Keogh and Sill in Montana and Oklahoma respectively and at Front Royal Virginia where they were to be mated witli selected marcs the property governmentIn of the government In addition to the above stallions there will now be permanent depots for remount work at the fol ¬ lowing points Camps Travis Funston Taylor and Jackson Forts Wingate and Robinson and at points yet to be designated in the Ohio Valley and southern California The Philippines will not be neglected as there is to be a depot at Manila The United States will be divided into five districts with headquarters as follows Eastern Nashville Tenn central Kansas City Mo northern St Paul Minn southern Fort Worth Tex and western Sacramento Cal CalThe The following named officers and civilians have been designated members of the remount board Major General William J Snow United States army Major General J Mel Carter United States army Colonel John S Fair general staff Colonel Bruce Palmer general staff Colonel Ben Lear Jr cavalry Lieutenant Colonel Joseph F Caulbee cavalry quartermaster corps Lieut Colonel Charles L Scott cavalry quartermaster corps Major Hay den Channing quartermaster corps Major Robert E Strawbridge quartermaster corps Captain Phil ¬ ip E M Walker retired Major August Bclmont Arthur Hancock Major Thos Hitchcock Algernon Daingerfleld and F Ambrose Clark
