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WORK OF CANADIAN BREEDING BUREAU. Montreal. Que.. September 14. — There has been a generous response of American owners and breeders to the appeal of tie Canadian National Bnrean of Breeding for thoroughbred sires. Just as this bureau has educated all Canada to the value of thoroughbred blood, so has it won the support of thinking tat fuses in tiie United Stales. Here are some facts regarding the Canadian bureau that are interesting: It covers More area than any horse bureau in the world. Its Quebec branch is ten times the size of the state of New York. Its Alberta territory is 1 n rgor than France or Germany. lis Manitoba provincial district is twice as large as Great Britain nnd Ireland. Its British Columbia section covers an area of country l.2U0 miles long and .~ 0o miles wide. It has placed thoroughbred sires from Halifax to Vancouver, a distance greater than thai between New York and San Francisco. lis sires arc as far north as the If ty -seventh parallel and as far south as the American border. It has MO government neterinaries looking alter its stallions and selecting the males. It lias a half-bred stud book BS perfect as the Oeuii-sang of France and a card index system showing the ag», color, sex. breeding and owner of every half-bred foal in Canada. It is trying to produce sixty mil Unci dollars worth of cavalry horses for England alone, it has the co-operation of the Eng- lish war nnVe. the British government, the Canadian government and the nine provincial governments of Canada. The Canadian militia department aids it In every way and the minister of militia and defense keeps one of the bureau SIsBlnnS on his nun farm. It has been indorsed by ninety. one agricultural .societies. It has no politics, but members of both parties in the House of Commons are enthusiastic over the Work . Its horses have won blue ribbons and medals Aram const to coast. It promises to solve the remount problem of the British Empire and establish the 1 horoujtiibred ;i- :i great factor in the plan of Imperial defense. 1 1 baa ::»;.177 Canadian fanner.- ami breeders helping along the mark. Its freight bill alone last year was 0,761. it is only two years and a half old. It has nine provincial secretaries, besides representatives in New York. Buffalo, Chicago, Lexington, Ban Francisco, London, Calcutta. Dublin. Brisbane, Cape Town, Toklo and Hong Kong. It Is Inclined by men who are not looking for dtridends and who do not even expect their own in— rr back. The largest horse exchange in the world la being formed to handle its crop of half-breeds. This year it helped to defeat the greatest movement ever inaugurated against the thoroughbred in Camida. It takes the bold stand that any so called reformer who interferes with i;s work of solving the problem is a traitor to the British tag, and It snows why. it has demonstrated that the Ihotontihwed is the only sire thai improves all breeds and Hint the barns-breeding industry of the country means all breeds. It publishes and distributes a monthly magazine of information concerning breeding, care of horses, feeding of foals and many other topics. It shows the fanner where the market lies and teaches him how to raise his horse so as to get the best market price. If proves that racing is the only test of the thoroughbred. "Flying Fox." says this bureau, "did not sill for 87,500 because be was a horse show doll. He bad proved his ability to carry weight over a distance of ground — in other words, be was a gi¥»d race horse." Ds work has won the praise of Gen. Sir Join! Flench, the greatest military authority in the Empire, who followed it through Canada for 3,000 miles.
