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CANADIAN BREEDING BUREAU WORK. 1 M..n:i..il. tin... lane S3, -Winn u raases to horse k, iii. Nat tonal Bares u ..i Breeding lias tin-realei of tin sia in Canada. The work ii js at-teiapthifi in siii|»iidoii~. To put the matnr run Hi. 1. 111. an is irriac to create saeh a condi-11. .11 in Hi.- i..,ii-. breeding indantrj that Baglaad arill U- side to -:.t in lln* i-oiumy all the caTalrjr horses sh. seeds 11 time of war. 1 l.ai does noi ssaad so i.i until ran z Into 4e-t.uls. Sli..uld Bnsland hare t.. mobilise, she would la-.-d l?.is.ooo liorses within six months. She lu~ ni i:.",.im«i liors«S at present and. in .:i e ..t war «iti. ■ ~h.:.;l:ii power, sin- woald nol be permitted hi bar caralrj resasants ...|,i in her own territory. Her own territory in tins east ssssns Canada. in 11.. room lo raise the crop m Knglsad or Ireland: Kuath Atri.a has s had eliiiiai.- for horse 1. .11 in.: AUKtralis is ke|,t busy Mintdylng India, tads Is the une li;: spaei availabli sud tin-. Id a iiii.- horse umeding e«»untrjr from ead td n.l. I h. :.iio.ooo horses needed will mess «*jO.000 to C.iii.i.iiaii farm. -is an. I breeders and Johnny lami.-k hsii "lie eye on the Union Jack ami the other on lis bankroll. Mi 1 ••in. nut |.r..l,l«-in has been the im-st hsfflin] on. wtth wlii.ii the war oah e In ontend sad the bureau lia~ set out to solve it. The work that the bureau i- doing is a great iiiiiij. 1..1 rating ami for ihi~ resasa S -nal I.ur. -nil proved before the Miller l.ill ...niiiiill.. 1! a. i nlisoluii h essential to Hie .1. . |..|.ui.in of the thoroughbred and ii siso ■bowed thai th. thoroaghbred sins ..1 the hares u • .mi. as donations from breeders and racing men. . .:niii. no bureau, was the watchword which l..ai the Miller bill. "It was the uae tvai iiiniiisw. rai.le argument of the laaalrj." s;i s In .1 . 1 liv commissioner ..1 ana ban an h i d.n.a eaawed the climax and v,..n the battli for thi tli..i..U.-lil.|. d." How thin gresl work is lieing carried on can ■ i I., tolil in a sii-.rt story. If you m ..ir.l lioin . v ..1 k 1. Central Africa, you would . 1 Hie approximate l.i.a.lih i»f the territory covered I 1 hureau has liyrses in N"a s. oiia. N. » Krunsu I. k yue4.ee. Ontario. Mallilol.a, A H.-tn-wan and Hiitili I olnmliia. Il siren :n.-as far S..11U1 .1.- tin AiiK-ri.-an In. id. r and a- far north as the aftj sixth psrsllel of latitude. 1 Where tin work Is :: -n. .-. - and the continual d assad Is for 11. •■!• I Is a bureau man return. - 1 from North Battle ford. Saskatchewan, oiilj a i-oiiph- of tlioiisaud miles • from Montreal. H. had lak. 11 Ore atslllons out there tu be jilaved on ranches and farm.--. 1 Tin l.iirean." said he, "is as nimli talked of thousands i»f mil. s front Montreal a-, it is here, i:11y time the rain stopped the fanners came to see the horses and begged to hove others sent to them. At Saskatoon I rhoagbt 1 would lose the whole lot. They rami to the nnmlxi i»f 4110 or SOU and said that the] had been writiag to the hureau far a year and the horse* musi l»- meant for them. I hnd great trouble in showing them that the stallions were going farther weat." With the thoroughbred boom approaching its aenltfa Mai iii n. Sir John Preach has arrived from Baa;-lan.l. II. i Hi.- greatest cavalry anthoritj in tin empire ami uas the most successful geaersl with cavalrj In the Boer war. He knows, perhaps, better ih. m .my li.n- man bow Important a pari was played bj he mounted men in South Africa, and he .-lis., known wiiai ■ lime i.ni.in.i hid ransacking tl* World for ninoiinls. It was only natural that lit-would be interested in a work s.. . i.. |. his hciit. 1.111 be has amrnassed the grestest cxpectatioas ..f bureau workers in the interest be has taken. Start in;. ;i Halifax be v. ill examine all the bureau sins a|..ii_ the line to Calgary, Alberta, and at the end of his « - 111 will l; i v «- iln- bureau an exhaustive report. lie will alvo report lo the British irovernmenl and. host of all. will ask King George V. to give 1 thoroughbred sire to the National Bur an. that such a donation would resnll in msny others from Bag l.in.l u.-. -. without vn in. Bngland Is it"- home of ih.- thoroughbred, rrom there h. has been trans planted to every country on earth. tine of the strongest points al«.ut the Canadian bun an is i,, hi n j not aSlisted with the 1 1 associations. This |H.int was brought oat bv the Jockci tlnb lawyers i.i-. the Miller bill committee and ii was .1 very strong point, Indeed, it disproved the breesj . --, 1 1 1 . 1 1 1 i 1 thi so-called reformers that the thoroughbred was a gambling tooL Here was an entirel] Independent Institution, with in-track connections, Bghting for the thoroughbred, not 1.. barm bnl a~ the greatest known aid t. the bona breeding Industn .-l the world, an inilii~ Irj wlii.li in young auada alone represents an in vestmenl ol ivm. hundred millions of dollars. The National Bureau ugbt was backed, not bj tint si , ■ ulaiois ..i society sportsmen, but by the tillers of Hi. soil, the men clane to the ground, and. I, ih.-. are the men whose weight counts ii a House of 1 ..iiiiioiis battle. Rural Canada was .villi the bureau and rural Canada is like peasant Prance ih. countri rests upon ii. Tin Canadian bureau i- thorougbl organised in 1 1n- nine itrovinces .,1 i.hi.i.Ii li ...... - .1 greater area than an] bores 11 in the world and. al that, ii is .i iii ii- swaddling clothes No man .in tell how far n vwil go or boa great an asset ii will build up for Canada. One thing, however, is certain uuU that is that will! the bureau n success tin- running turf in Canada Is safe, and when another year gnaa by no Utl-riiciug measure will have a ehaiiee.
