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FRONT ROYAL STUD FARM . — ♦ Uncle Sams Chief Experimental Breeding Establishment. * Over 500 Horses on the Reserve, ■ 1 Including Thirty Stallions of i Proven Blood and Quality. — ■ I [BY C. J. PIT! CFKAFD. | WASHINGTON. O. c. January SO. Those who ! i have au.v doubts I oai 1 1 Bia| the MHMI ill which 1 tin- federal uuihoritios an eaadartiag their -:i in : pefaja of geaeral parpeae beree laapraveatfat. thfeagh the employ ateat of thoreaghbred atallioas il- a lop rinsv, should i-if Front Koyal. Virginia. . I about niiiciy mill-; from thi- city. where many of ! ■j the hanea are heaved pwparaoary to beiag sent to j breedlag zones throughout the leaali j for the j iprlag campaign. Front Hoyal was the Chief I l|ll llwlal station 1 j of the government wheal the department of acri- j I culture had charge of the work af horae breedlag. Sime the estalilishmenl of the r. mount service,; ■with a fttnil of 8230.080 to carry OB the plan o , teiisively. it is only one of several centers devoted 1 j I to scientific horse production. A- many of the | heat stallions have lieen recruited in the Baal it 1 ] happens that ■ greater number of horses are I located at Front Koyal at present than nt Forts 1 BoMaaea. MB, Rttey, Kaehary Tayksr, Keoch or! any ether depot. Iii the near future these animals " | | "will o vent out over the cotintiy to do tlieir part I in supplying the cavalry with a proper type of I remount. In addition to the stallions visitors will find saach to latereat theai at Front Royal. They will | ! have an opportunity 1o observe tin- results ohtained . i from crossing be thoroughbred horae on marly every type e.r mare from the clean bred to the ! | I j draft. There are in all upward of BOO horses.1 • ! from yearttaga up. aa the reserve, which i- in Charge Of Major Fouls F. Heard, who is net only a thorough horseman, bal I caiacteat farmer as 1 . well. judging froai the manner in which he has ! improved ihe hillside pa-tnio-. many f which | Mere unproductive prior ;.. his coming. There v,i coashlerable criticiaai of those arhel ! were i es]mnsihle for llo.it Koyal. which i- on a 1 j spur of the Southern Railway. There is an alum- I i 1 dance of spring water in all the aaatarea and ihe buildings an- of the aaaal substantial character, i : Alfalfa i- beiag gn.wn Satisfactorily and ihe fact 1 that horses caa run out the Mar round i- in its favor. There arc wooden shelters, inn Major Heard say- the mare- and young stark seem to prefer the apt a at all times. The geaeral health of the boreea roaM nt he improved B| They; I were a- loimh aa heals and fiatiefced like a hand . of school children while- their hay was being spread over the brown hillside in the waning light of a 1 I winter evening. FOALS BY FAMOUS RACERS. hi the hand of yoiingstcis were foals by Greek Lege ad. a aea if the crack Raglish sin- Polyaaelus, I : imported hy C. K. G. Killing- and Frederick John- . sou. and which was considered the eqaal of mar I Khayyam before he went WTOag. Others were by j i I Yankee, the son of Hanover and Correction, with I a Futurity to hia credit. He waa a 0,000 yearling " ! when bought at tin- Morris -ale by the late W. C. ■ Wnttncv ami .lohn F. Madden and he cost the H latter "and Frank K. Hitchcock 821,000 at the; dispersal sale of the Whitney hois.--. Yankee . represented tbeui in the -tud for a period and waa [ ihen presented to the federal gevernaaeat. Still other sirs represented by worthy apdaaeae were . . Hanger Back and Ferole. -on- , f Roek Sand agd i i Irrme respectively, loaned to the caase by A agnail i i I.elniout. There were al-o fire types of the half-bred by District Attorney, a sou of Meddler, and; 1: I.a-i Lore, by Ko-iorucian. bred in France hy j Clareece H. Maekay. other good apeeiaaeaa were by the Sir Di.v n hor-e Black Dick, and there were a aaaaln i by Gaaador, a son of The Ooaaaaoacr, • whose prageaj have a world af ejaaUty. There were thirty sialliotis in all at Front Boyal and. they repre seated the beat blood in the BagUah and - American Stud Book. All were in ragged health. Yankee looking like a ten-year old instead of r baring entered upon his twenty second year. A- there arc a number of fine thoroagbbred luare-at ■ the -tation. it is the intention to breed sites of tlieir own in order to overcome the shortage which eists at the pic-ent time. WHh applica-, • I tion- on hand for mote than 4 M» hor-c- and not 1 mote than - available the situation i- one worthy of the attention of all those who want to -ee the movement go forward a- rapid!] a- possible. There i- a traiahag school where recruit* bought 1 I I in Virginia and Maryland receive their training. ■ I i There were about ISO three and lour -year old- in 1 i this contingent, and in the lot were at least a score; | of novices that could win a hunter etass on tno.-r r -how-. They eoiiM all .jump, in fact not a Eiagk | I rse seen under saddle or in the pen showed a i dispostion to go anywhere but aver his fences. Many of the four-year old- were up to any weislt. ol. Armatroag, head of the Beaaoaal Service. I ■nd hi- chief aid. Major Scoti. arc proud of what can be seen at Front Koyal. It is the finest possible answer to the pessimist, who ha- be a read] lo throw cold water on the Federal tttlOBat i aaatcaaeat and the tbiaga for which ii stand-.
