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GOVERNMENTAL ASSISTANCE OF BREEDERS. Advocating an increase of government subventions in encouragement of horse breeding, the London Tini-s said recently: ""In France, for example, the subsidies in one form or another amount to i -omething like a quarter of a million per annum. ,-ind even mountainous Switzerland has a system of m 1 1 lag, horses for military purposes which has |.,cii i ureatlv approxed by some ,,f the war experts of thhl country. Kngland. on the other hand, has a wrant of und r £5,000 per annum, which dates from the reign of Queen Anne, and was. until : rweatj two cars ago. given as race prizes which i were called Kings or Que ns Plaies. Now. however twenty -eight Kings Premiums of C1M are • awarded to certain stallions, shown every spring at the Agricultural Hall. Islington, and which have to stand or irav 1 in certain districts at a lew fee. This small sum of £4,300 is the whole amount con trlbuted by the nation to the horse industry and it must x- admitted that it is totally inadequate for the needs of the country." *
