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BREEDING BUREAU BENEFITS. C. J. Fitzgerald is one of the most enthusiastic of horsemen whenever the Breeding Bureau is under discussion. Recently he said that the great benefit of the bureau to the horse world would not show for possibly eight or ten years, but by that time purchasers, who have been going all over the country for suitable horses, would not have to leave the state of New York. "The Breeding Bureau," he said, "is still In the experimental stage. Farmers will learn, by these experiments, the best kind of a mare to send to the court of one of these free stallions, and they will also become alert to the many increased advantages of such a mating. They will learn that such foals mature much quicker and that the half-bred is much more adaptable for the market than any other horse. "Any good, sturdy half-bred from a mare sixteen hands, or even less, provided she is of good, sturdy conformation, should weigh at least 1,050 pounds at three years old, and he should be big enough and mature enough to carry a man weighing from 150 to 1C0 pounds.. It means something" to the farmer when he has a chance to turn a half-bred into real money when he is a three-year-old He will soon find it a wonderfully good return for the investment of 0, the bureau fee for a mare. "The Breeding Bureau promises to become a-national concern, and I look for a marvelous improvement iu all horses within the next ten cr fifteen years. So many states have taken up the subject that the others will have to give it some attention if they propose to cut any figure whatever in the horse market."
