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BREEDING BUREAUS WORE IN CANADA Ottawa Out February S The special committee which has in hand the Miller antibetting bill has adjourned for two weeks From start to finish of the inquiry both sides have admitted that thorough ¬ bred blood is an absolute necessity to the hors breeding industry in Canada and with one or two exceptions the witnesses for and against the bill have also admitted that racing is essential to the development of the thoroughbred For the hcueiit of tlmse who do not agree as to the preeminence of the indexible winning i ost as the one true test the bureau furnishes data going back ten centuries into the mists from wliich ihe Barbs and Arabs emerged and shows that contest selection and care have brought the fourteenhand Arab jioiiy up through the ages developing him into the superb thoroughbred of the twentieth century Having shown that the thoroughbred is the only horse which improve all breeds and the horsebreeding industry of a coun trv means all breeds the bureau goes further and shows bv a list of its donations that the magnificent stallions which are revolutionizing the industry in Canada and solving the remount problem for Eng ¬ land have come not from states like Illinois Mis ¬ souri and Louisiana where racing is dead but from England Ireland Australia and the states of Ken ¬ tucky New York Florida and Virginia where rac ing Nourishes and breeders and owners can afford to donate No man says the bureau who ex ¬ pects to be wiped off Hie earth is in the humor to give anything away The national bureau has put Canada in tin i osition of l eiiig the only country in the world that ever received foreign thoroughbreds bv donation It has received seventyfive per cent of its stallions from American states where rac1 nourishes It has never received a horse from locality where racing is dead Where there Is 110 betting there is no racing racingRural Rural Canada is with the bureau and rural Can ¬ ada is like iKasaut France The country rests upon it From ocean to ocean the bureau has sent its thoroughbreds and every bureau thoroughbred was patronized to the full extent in J909 and is Ixxked to the limit for IllO The foals are aiming Seven of this young things arrived in the blizzard last week and the bureau has seven letters describ ing these foals which would gladden the heart of every friend of the thoroughbred in the world There are a thousand more foals coming From Un American borders to the liftylifth parallel and froui Cape Breton Island to Vancouver the thor ¬ oughbred horse is making friends He has been introduced to tin man with the hoe and he is his own best recommendation recommendationEnglands Englands army needs cavalry horses She has pleaded with Canada to product1 them Her war oflice intelligence ollicials have gone into every hole and corner of this broad land preaching the doctrine of the thoroughbred cross The bureau has her offer to take the entire crop War horses are as necessary to England as Dreadnaughts and Canada is the last colony loft in the British empire that can produce these horses in sutliclent number to keep up Hie imperial cavalry reserve Australia is sending eight thousand cavalry horses per year to India Canada must do the same for England
