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STUD BOOK FOR HALF-BRED HORSES NEW YORK, N. Y.. December 8. Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth. president of the Genessee Valley Breeders Association, lias conceived a system of registration of foals which will have a far-reaching effect in the improvement of the breed of horses. It is patterned after the Half Bred Stud Book in England, which was also the work of a woman. Miss F. W. Prior. Mrs. Wadsworth has set forth her scheme of registration - in a circular letter, -which has been given wide distribution among New York farmers. In part the circular says: "A stud book Issued under the auspices of the Breeding Bureau of the Jockey Club lias been opened so that foals sired by thoroughbred stallions, but not themselves eligible to registration as thoroughbreds mav le registered and a record kept of them. "All foals sired by a horse which is registered in either the American or the English Stud Book are eligible to registration in this stud book. Certificates of registration will lie issued to applicants who properly fulfill the conditions required, and these f;ertificatos are to lie preserved and transferred to subsequent purchasers, record of transfers being kept on reverse side, The value of tills half-bred foal registration lies in the fact that hereafter the purchaser of any half-bred, foaled in 1919 or later, will really know what lie is buying when the person offering the animal for sale can produce the certificate of registration. In the past it lias too often happened that an animal lias been accredited to a stallion which in fact was not its sire. This stud book for half-breds should eliminate such uncertainties in the .future. . "For the current year applications for registration will be received until December 31, 1919. After the present year applications for registration must be made prior to. November 1 of the calendar year in which the foal is born. Foals born prior to 1919 are not eligible to registration."
