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i i . l ■ I . BREEDING BUREAU FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston. S. C, January !•. — It ha- beet nounced by the Charleston Pair ami Racing Asse elation tiiat beginning with t i • second w«- -k oi the meeting, there will be two race- on the program each week that will be known as breeders races. B doing this, tie- management Intends t establish a thoroughbred breeding bureau for the State of South Carolina. The conditions of races ,,t i us kind wili call for ih, i:i!i, - of -talions only, and in exchange for the purse the ownei of Hie hor-c thai win- the race wili give up the animal to the Charleston fair and Racing Association, under the conditions of the i.e.. in nutting ■■!! event- of this kind the genient has in view the Improvement of the breed ol horses throughout the Stste i Booth Cat i Una. for tin- winners -,t these races will be given to farmers throughout the state. There are many breediug bureaus in this country, ami also in Canada. Th,- Canadian Breeding Bureau, of which John P. Ryan i- manager, i- an especially effective Institution. Mr. Ryan, by hard work. managed to gel this bureau Btarted, and II grada ally worked along so thai at lie- present time il can boa-t of man] great thoroughbred stallions. So well has Mr. Ryan dom hi- work that throughout the provinces of Ontario ami Quebec are scattered man famous horses thai , ok i . it in races in this country. Mr. Ryan hi- been rortonate in receiving dona t loos ot many valuable stallions From owners who raced in the Inlted Stale- and Canada. P. New York State there p :,|*,, a valuable breeding bureau. The War Department al-, has the nucleus of « breeding bureau, composed ol thoroughbreds presented to tin- department b] August Belmont. Ih it the iliioiiuhi.r. ,i i- valuable ;•• -ho. a b the statement made several weeks a.,, bj Geueral Wood. in which he a-ked lie, i i ,, breeding of thoroughbreds I neonraged as be realised thai tin- thoroughbred was p.,, led to produce good horses for use in the army. Once these events are started ami tin- horses distributed iii different points throughout this state. ii i- expected that there will ; ■ great demand for tin thoroughbreds bj the farm;-, and once this work begins il will onl] !"• a short tin before Suutk Carolina can boast of many thoroughbred horses hi a-,- for breeding purposes. A »tsrt i- all that is II led. and then tie- work will Ik- continued, ami tie management feels tint ii i- sun I . be a success in this -tat,-, a- ii .ii- been in i, a various places where breeding bureaus have been established.
