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CANADIAN BREEDING BUREAU GROWS Army Ofiicers and Hunting Associations Cooperating with Racing Folks Montreal July 1 The Canadian Xatlonal Bureau of Breeding organized a few months ago by John F Ryan bus now u firm footing in the province of Quebec and will be extended before the snow flies to Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and British Columbia Owners have bqeu more than gen ¬ erous to the new institution and breeders favor it Every stallion placed has been booked to the limit which is thirty Xot only do farmers arid breeders take the keenest Interest but cavalry officers have started a plan which is bound to improve that arm of the service Major Riley of the Duke of York Hussars for example lias taken the stallion Our IJoy by My Boy II and has induced all the far ¬ mers sons in Vaudrettil County to bring their mares The produce will be purchased for cavalry purposes and Colonel James Ross has put up cash prizes for the best foals by bureau stallions in this county countyAcross Across the river at St Lambert the bureau stal ¬ lion Javlin by Bridgewater is being looked after by the Fox Hunters Association the leading French Canadian hunting clnb of Montreal MontrealJohn John Bodens Masterman by Hastings will lie added to the bureau in September lie is a fine horse and his crop of foals this year are said to be the finest in Virginia King Cole by Hamburg Black Venus Ben Hodder by The Commoner Mountain Mist and other wellbred thoroughbreds will swell the list within the next month Botanist by Uoanerges May B IL will be given to the bureau when retired from racing racingThere There is enough room in Canada to raise a worlds supply of cavalry horses and the Xational Bureau is working along that line Farmers in this vlcinity point to the fact that there is more pasture land in Quebec and Ontario than in the whole of France and quote the report of the French minister of agriculture to show that in France last year the government paid 3700000 for cavalry mounts to farmers who patronized the thoroughbred stallions of the French Bureau All this vast sum remained in the country
