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GROWTH OF ARMY BREEDING What the Remount Association Has Done for the Service. Estimated That at Least 3,200 Foals Will Result From the Matlngs of the 1923 Season. 1 In a recently issued pamphlet of the annual reports of the American Remount Association there are some interesting figures on the growth of the breeding since the present plan was adopted by the association. The breeding plan, operated by the remount service of the Quartermaster Corps of the army, has now been in operation for three full years, with most encouraging results. Beginning with 159 stallions at stud in 1921, increased to 219 in 1922, there are at the stud for the current breeding season over 300 stallions. With relatively few exceptions, these stallions have performed satisfactorily, and the communities wherein they are placed appear full appreciative of their value in breeding up local stock. Hundreds of applications for stallions are constantly pending a circumstance which indicates a remarkable growth of public interest in the breeding of light horses, since the inauguration of the breeding plan. 1,777 FOALS FIRST YEAR. During the breeding season of 1921, there were bred 4,129 mares to 159 stallions, with a reported get of 1,777 foals, or approximately 43 per cent. For the breeding season of 1922, 7,000 mares were bred to 219 stallions, with a reported get of 2,700. During the breeding season of 1923, approximately 8,000 mares were bred to 259 stallions. While complete reports as to the foals obtained from the breeding in 1923 are not as yet available, it is estimated that at least 3,200 foals will result from that breeding. From the results as above reported, it is confidently expected that within the lapse of a comparatively short period of time, if tho Remount breeding operations so-auspiciously began, are continued without interruption, there will be in this country a considerable number of excellent half-bred horses, which when placed on the market will command exceedingly good prices and will do much to meet the ever-growing demand for horses on the farm, for cow horses, for hunters and for polo ponies. TWO BREEDING BUREAU FOALS. It is interesting to note, in this connection, that at least two famous races horses have been sired by Remount stallions, viz., Sallys Alley, by Allumeur, and Wise Counsellor, by Mentor. It will be, of course, not only highly desirable, but wholly essential, in order to insure the ultimate success of the breeding plan, that within the next two or three years a market be found for young horses sired by Remount stallions, through the regular annual purchases for the army of a certain number of those found suitable for the military service. Such of these, horses are not purchased by the government, for one reason or another, will, it is confidently expected, find a ready market in commercial life. Already there is ample evidence available that the get of Remount stallions will be exceedingly popular and in great demand.
