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CANADIAN BREEDING BUREAU PLANS. Montreal, Que., February 24. — The Canadian National Bureau of Breeding, which was started a short time ago, has made remarkable progress and already there are branch bureaus in Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. It is the aim to have ■ branch in every province in Canada. The selecting of secretaries for Alberta and British Columbia is now under advisement and the maritime provinces of New Brunswick and. Prince Edward Island will be attended to later. The effect of this bureau on the breeding industCT of Canada may be gleaned from an oiitliu i 8Jr policy which will be followed and the ni.ignittdte of the work will lie shown by export returns a few years later, when Canada will be producing a type of saddle and cavalry horse which should attract buyers from all over Europe. It depends for a large measure of its success on the jockev clnbs of fanada, and the majority of these organizations have already indorsed the undertaking and have promised to carry out their part of the work. At. different race meetings this year races will be framed with conditions to attract stallions lour years old and over for purses of 00, !00 or 00. the winner to be donated to the breeding bureau. These stallions, after passing into the hands of the bureau, will be placed with responsible farmers In different counties for service with coldblooded mares at a nominal fee. The plan is bow lieing followed with success in supplying the Breed-lug Bureau of falifornia with stallions. It is perhaps bet ler than the system used in New York state, where stallions were secured by donation and by purchase. The Canadian plan gives the jockey elubs a chance to help, and in so doing they furnish an irrefutable answer to the reformers who characterize as a myth the contention that the aim of all reputable racing organizations is the improvement of the breed of horses. Every fanner who has a bureau stallion will have to keep a record of the mares and of the foals. These will b. forwarded to each provincial secretary and then sent on to the headquarters of the bureau in Montreal.
