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CANADIAN BREEDING BUREAU FLOURISHING. Everard. Rifleman, Acrobat, Botanist and Other Good Horses Latest Acquisition!. Montreal. Que., June 21. — HnTry N. Price of Wasiiington has donated the four-year-old black wtallion. Everard. to the Canadian National Bureau of Breeding. Bverard is a handsome thoronghbri-l and royally bred, being by Aldinc. a son of the •■uneaten 9t. Simon. premier sire of England for nine years. Everard is a relative in blood to Minora, winner of this years Derby, his dam. Mabel dOr. being a daughter of Waterlevel. by Isonomy. which ranks second only to St. Simon as a sire in I.nglAiwl. The dam of Waterlevel was Water Lily, liy Lord Lyon, winner of the Triple Crown. Everard la a well-built horse, about 18.S4. of fine proportion and good bono. He is a typical bureau type, and a horse which should leave behind him srreat cavalry and saddle horses when mated with yood cold-blooded mares. A ltoard of governors has been organized for the bureau, with Major George W. Stephens of Montreal as chairman. The board, though not yet completed, is one of the strongest IkhIIcs of prominent men which ever sot behind the breeding industry anywhere. So far it is composed of the following: Major George W. Stephens. M. L. A.. Montreal, vhairman. Hon. Clifford Sifton. Ottawa. Albert E. Dyment. Toronto. Lieutenant-Colonel Rodolphe Forget. M. P.. Montreal. Hon. Robert Boith. Bowmanville. Haaater Edwards. Ottawa. .Major J. .1. Kilty. Montreal. Dr. R. E. Webster. M. F. H.. Ottawa. Colonel II. J. McLaughlin. London. England. W. W. Hubliard. Fredericton. N. B. Lieutenant Colonel Ashmead. Quebec. H. J. P. Oood, Toronto. Gmrge CanutlHis. Winnipeg. Man. Oabsfo Brown. Calgary. Alberta. Malar Samuel Harris. Vancouver. B. C. The Imard will meet at least once a year to rc-veivo the annual report of the work of the bureau, and its ineuiliers are invited at all times to make suggestions to the directors concerning the policy and the advancement of a plan which is now approved on both sides of the Atlantic and known around the world. Thanks to the generosity of the horse owners and breeders of the thoroughbred, and to the hard work of the men identified with the bureau, the pnre-tilpodkd horse has now ln-en distributed in Canada from St. John. New Brunswick, on the Atlan:ic seatnwrd. to Bruce Mines, in western Ontario, and a sufficient number of magnificent stallions are al-readv arranged for to make a showing in Manitoba. Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. It is estimated that the bureau has placed already over 00,000 worth of horses- with Canadian farmers for service with cold-blooded mares, and no matter where one looks now — in the maritime provinces, around the Saguenay, near old Qnebec. in the Ottawa valley or the fertile farms of Ontario — there the thoroughbred will be found producing a type of utility horse and proving his economic worth as a sire of progeny with conformation, stamina- and that ••ourage which comes only from such a source. built up. as it has been, by the most careful thought, the wisest selection and rue expenditure of millions of dollars. That the pure-blooded horse improves any and all breeds with which it comes in contact, is now ad initted by ever - progressive government in the world, and that Canada is alive to this is demonstrated by the fact that already nearly 10 OIK farmers are in- correspondence with flic National Bureau. These are men who. for the most part, knew nothing about the thoroughbred a year ago, and «X"i P*s-jO. dariorse lovers, without regard to their nationality, have their shoulders to the bureau wheel. Not long ago a horse was donated by a resident of Ireland. Ho recently as yesterday three thoroughbreds were promised by Canadian owners, and the Americans liave placed Canada in the position of being the only country which ever received foreign thoroughbreds by donation. In a few days a list of new arrivals in the bureau will be published, and it will then be seen that the organization lias reason to hope that it will reach the Pacific coast in a practii-al way before Christinas. That the class of horses is being kept high is shown by the fact that among the latest acquisitions are Rifleman. Acrobat. Botanist. Red Eve. Althes and. expectantly. Semper Ego. together with other horses of less fame, but stout animals, nevertheless. Nearly twenty other horses have been premised to the bureau for delivery after the present raeing season, including Schrooders Midwav. Patriot, llolscher. King Cole. Kirktield. Confessor and Cobmosa. There are also many owners and breeders in Canada. New York. Kentucky. Tennessee. Maryland and Virginia who have promised horses, ami have asked for time to decide as to what horse to send. The bureau has caused the greatest revolution ever seen in the horse-breeding iudustry since France formed its peerless bureau, wliich. starting a quarter of a century ago. now leads the world with 2".A stallions, and brings from three to four millions of dollars to the pockets of the French breeders and farmers every year. Germany has been engaged at bureau work for thirty-one years and has nmv 101 state-owned stallions. That the Canadian bureau will probably beat that total before the close of 1010 slows the tremendous speed with which the work is advancing.
