view raw text
LOUISIANA SEES BENEFITS OF A BUREAU. Commissioner of Agriculture Is Urging Co-operation of Planters in Movement for Better Horses. Colonel Charles Schuler, Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration for the state of Louisiana, is sending out from Baton Rouge a letter by Henry Mooney, of New Orleans, to the farmers and stock breeders of the state asking their co-operation in securing from the Crescent City Jockey Club and the New Orleans Jockey Club the promise to establish a breeders bureau. At the recent meeting of the parish fair officials this letter of Mr. Mooney was read and indorsed, and the Commissioner was instructed to send it out to the planters. In his letter Mr. Mooney says in part: "Will you co-operate with us in an effort to secure for the farmers of Louisiana such advantages as are now enjoyed by the farmers of New York.? "I desire your full sympathy, and ask you to assist me by your indorsement in soliciting from the Crescent City Jockey Club and the New Orleans Jockey Club the same public-spirited action as has already been taken by similar organizations in New York. "The result of such favorable action taken by them would be to place within the means of every farmer in this state the opportunity to improve his stock. Thoroughbred blood infused into your horses would immeasurably increase their usefulness for all purposes, and consequently their value." An account of the New York Breeding Bureau is given, and the plan outliued for the organization of- a bureau in Louisiana. The Bureau Is to be composed of members of the jockey clubs, with authority to improve the breed of horses. The committee is to acquire thoroughbred stallions, and these are to be shipped by the Bureau at its own expense to various localities throughout the state.
