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BREEDING BUREAU MAKES GOOD SHOWING. Much Accomplished by Subsidiary Organization of Jockey Club in New York State. Now fork, February 29.— With the recent awakening of the whole country to the startling depletion in the Bomber of good horses in America, brought most forcibly before the pabUc by the statements ; of Major ; neral Leonard Wood. Chief of Staff of the United states Army, there has been a mistaken idea that the New York Breeding Bureau had been. or was aboat to be, abandoned. A letter was recently received fr. in the State Department of Agriculture, asking ii such was a fact. Answering this Secretary Algernon Daingerneld prepared a comprehensive history of the Breeding Bureau aid what it has done since its establishment in May. liHMi. On that date a committee of five from the Joekey Cub was appointed to establish a breeding bureau, by which thoroughbred stallions i should I" placed in various counties in the state of New York. This committee was empowered to draw UKMi from the treasury of the Jockey Club for the expenses ,,i sack a bureau. The Brat stallion was placed in June. 1666, and liefore the end of the same year thirty eight stallions had been distributed throughout the state. It was decided that in the selection of the stallions I that they should be not less than 1T hands :: inches in height and should weigh not less than 1.10H pounds. The aga was fixed at between four and twolvi years. For the reason that the breeding season was about over in 1906 before the bureau was launched the result of the hist year was not more than 100 foals. At the close of 1907 there were Sfty-five stallions m service and it was shown that thev had been mated during the year with 1,085 mares. Tor 190S the reports show- that 1.058 mures went to these stallions and 981 living foals were reported as the result of the FMI7 bleeding. Reports for 19 r! showed that the stallions were mated with 72- mares and 410 foals were reported as a result of the breeding season of 1908. The 1910 report shows that the Breeding Bureau stallions were mated with 7MI mares and 428 foals Were reported as a result of the breeding of 1909. The 1911 report shows 466 auurea and 966 foals. o This shows that as a direct result of the establishment of the Breeding Bureau a total showing of i 1.88.1 foals. As many of the mares are sold or I I Haded they have frequently bean lost track of and ; the reports are only of the actual living foals that can Im- traced, so that the actual number is much o greater. Mail tin- various stallions been acquired by actual purchase the e..st would have been enormous, but helierinr so thoroughly ia the benefit— in fact the necessity f the Infusion of thoroughbred blood in the coaiM-r strains many were donated by such gentlemen as Aagaai Belmont- who gare "three — James B. Keene. V. K. Vanderbilt. F. R. Hitchcock, II. K. Knapp. II. B. Dure, a. E. C. Cowdin, J. B. Haggla. Andrew .Miller. W. A. Wadsworth. Joseph E. Widener and other gentlemen interested in the improvement of the breed of horses in the State. It Is withy of note that immediately after the creation of the Breeding Bureau in New York aim Hut organizations were launched in Canada. Ken tuck] Mississippi. Louisiana. Tennessee, Maryland and Virginia, and are operated on a small scale. with the exception of the Canadian bureau, which has grown to gigantic proportions. The office oi tie- Breeding Bureau has been in communication with captain Charles Conrad, cap-tala and quartermaster V. S. A., and Hon. George M. Rommeil, •: tie- Department of Agriculture, inviting an Inspection of the get of the stallions that have been placed in the state, with a view of facili tating the solution of the problem of remounts for the army. The stallions now- placed by the Breeding Bureau sin : Accountant, Advance Guard, Arabo. Barley-thoipe. Barney Burk. Bushev Top. Carrollton Don de Oro, Eaatoa, Escort. Fatherland. Faulcoubridge Girdleatone, Goodrich. Gov. Griggs. Hermitage. Lad-sarioii. Margrave. On Deck. Brine,- Hamburg, Race King. Bed live. Rensselaer. BaCCharometer, Saints Day. gaiadln. shot Gan. spring, Wat erector, willard In the autumn of 1910 Traveller was located at the l nited States Army Post rort Ethan Allen Vermont Me was highly prized and was mated will; evel, n mares in 1911. This stallion vva do i nated to them for twelve months only anil ami ri turned in 1911 to his donor and On Ik-ek was .. „i to nil his plai i . Two stallions. Watercolor and Prince Hamburg are la s. rrlee at posts of the National Guard of the State of New York. Prince Hamburg Is with Troop .. at Huntington. I, I., and Watercolor with Troop D.. at Syracuse. This borse*s Bel are nine;, admired by the officers of tie command who pur-clmwd eight of them for rtuwgl t- A recapitulation show~: Mares Bred to Bureau Stallions. 1 • • Namber. It .am I9o; l osr, I«* 1 o.-,s 1900 723 1910 7i Itl 1 KM Total i i:. Living Foals Reported. 1 i i Naatber. 1667 . ion 1908 . :.m 190U no 191H VS 1911 a,.; Total . l 883
