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TURKEY AFTER CANADIAN HALF-BREDS. Bitrdiiii; Bureau Unable at Present to Fill Order Inr Seven Thousand Cavalry Remounts. Montreal. u. . February n Grant Hagfe Browne est olk. arrived here with an order from ih -fiiikisii government for 7,680 cavalry remounts to i " delivered at pace. Mr. Browae went to Turkey two months sgo n irrange for the talc ot some torpedo ImmI destroyers, and while thei • w i« rota- li.issi,,:,,.,| I,, M.,nr,. lies,- h..i— s. Retoraiag to the I .I Ktat "ii raeoday las Ue round on liMpilrj thai there w«-re not euough reimMinls In thai count rj t" su|Hjdj tin- Alien, a i ainiv requirements. I. Moiiii.-i! he Interviewed Manager .1 F. Ryan ■■ He Ianadlat National Karean of Bre ling, ablefa Ii srodaciag Ualf-hreds la Caaunla h the free dis- iiilmtion of thoroughbred sires. lie offered a fair HIT I main price for 7,000 remounts, hut his offer eouhi not be accepted foe two reason*: in the Brat place, the bureau crop is not old enough to be used for cavalry purposes, and the oldest of them will not be ready until Mtl4. In the second place it is .-111 unwritten law of the bureau that Canada ami England shall have tiisi call on these remounts. ami farmers ami breeders will probably follow this advice of their own free will. The win otti. .- takes the fair stand, thai if Canada produces these remounts it will be op to England to get them, ami if she i!,h s not eel them it will l.e her own fault. Although such an order as the above cannot *- tilled in Canada at the present time still, if the National Bureau is uninterrupted in its work, a consignment of like magnitude could easily 1m- gathered in this country not later than 1915. s, v, n thousand cavalry remounts moans about ,000,000, and in proof of the potential energy if the National Bureau it may be pointed out that if the work were suafeiently far advanced, Canadian fanners .tin! breeders would gel that amount of money within a space of twenty days. "I am now going to try the Argentine Republic" said Mr. Browne before leaving for New York. "On account of the lotij: shipment from Bio tie Janeiro or Buenos Ayres, the maigla of profit will only be .iImiui one-half what it would have been bad I been able to get these horses to ship from Halifax, but Canada b going about the matter in the right way. and remount breeding should i o a great and profitable work in this country in the Bear future."
