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BREEDING BUREAU IS GETTING RESULTS. Canadian Organization Doing Great Work "in Improving Breed of Horsos. Montreal. Que.. August 16. The National Bureau of Breeding is commencing to get reports from different parts of Canada and sufficient data has already been received to show that it has attained the object aimed at, which is to improve the breed of horses in Canada by means of the thoroughbred cross. . On account of the greater grazing areas iind the fact that fodder is so much more readily obtained, the western provinces will probably leail he east in the number of the halfrbrfds raised. Every stallion placed In. the west has had a full Unfit -of services, and many more thoroughbreds are required between Winnipeg; and the coast. In the vicinity of Montreal. Ottawa, Hull and Quebec the work lias been well carried out, and a vast. Improvement will sbbn.be seen in thq -quality of the lighter kind of horses. At Ottawa ninetv-onc selected mares itre in foal to thoroughbred stallions. In Montreal and the, surrounding country there are about eighty marcs in foal to thoroughbreds. Although the bureau does not aim to produce thoroughbreds, still many thoroughbred mares in this province have been mated with thoroughbred stallions, and no less than twenty-seven are supposed to be in foal. At this time last year there were vnily two thoroughbred marcs in this vicinity in foal. The bureau stallions placed in New Brunswick did not reach there until, the season was half over.-lint in spite of this It Is expected that they will average forty foals each. Away up in Bruce Mines, in Al"oma. Bushmont has been mated with seventy-one liiares. The bureau a few weeks ago sent out. circulars to the different men with whom stallions have been placed, asking "them bow the farmers liked the horses and what the prospects looked like for next season. In every instance the reply is that the farmers are well pleased with the bureau thoroughbreds, and that each horse will be booked to the limit prescribed in 1910. During the next, few weeks the work, will be pushed along in Saskatchewan. There Is an immense grazing area in that" province and many breeders. II. C. Lawson, secretary of the Board of Trade, Hegina. has been appointed secretary for the National Bureau for Saskatchewan. ... Farmers in Quebec who have bureau stallions are getting ready for the fall fairs. Samuel Nesbitt, of Petite Cote, will show Rosemount, winner of the blue ribbon at the Montreal Horse Showi at the Central Canada Fair, and also at Sherbrooke and Three Rivers. Emmett Beerwort. of Clarenceville, Que., will show Botanist at Ottawa and also at Sherbrooke. Mastermau will probably be sent up from Quebec to the Three Rivers fair. Bushmont will be shown at the big fair at . Sault StC.. Marie, and other horses will be shown in the west. One of the bureau thoroughbreds which will compete for the gold medal at Ottawa is Valjean, Which has developed into a fine horse.
