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1 CALIFORNIA HORSE BREEDING Phenomenal Growth of Industry Is Indicated in State -Wide Survey. Over 0,000,000 Invested in the Raising of Thoroughbreds — Increase in Number of Stud Farms. LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 17.— The phenomenal growth of the thoroughbred breeding industry in California, and the extensive ownership of high ranking bloodstock, is clearly indicated by the results of a state-1 wide survey being made by the California Breeders Association. The California Breeders Association now lists ninety members, with new enrollments being received almost daily. This list includes many of the most prominent men and women in the state, substantial and respected citizens whose business and social interests reach into all branches of state and national life. The directors and officers of the association are: C. E. Perkins, president; C. S. Howard, first vice-president; C. T. Boots/ second vice-president; Ed Janss, Jr., secretary-treasurer; B. K. Beckwith, field secretary-treasurer; H. P. Russell, C. E. Cooper, H. H. Cotton, W. H. Hoffman, Jr., and T. Wilson Dibblee. The associations survey includes every district in California, from Shasta County in the north, down through the Redwood Empire, the Bay area, the central coastal counties, the San Joaquin Valley, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties, to Orange and San Diego Counties, in the extreme south. Its results show that the breeding industry has taken firm and lasting root. These results will be announced sectionally as soon as all the returns are received and ..compiled. QUESTIONNAIRE. Early returns from a questionnaire sent to all breeders asking for information on acreage involved, investment in farm, number of employes, cost of operations, value of bloodstock, number of stallions, brood mares and young stock indicate that in excess of fifty millions of dollars are now invested in the raising of thoroughbreds in California. Not hundreds, but thousands of men are employed. The amount of stock carried is only exceeded by one other state in the Union — Kentucky. The acreage involved runs into hundreds of thousands. Since November over twenty studs have been added to the registered stallion list and a large number of the finest brood mares in the land have been imported from the East. New ranch owners include such men as Howard Oots, famous Kentucky breeder, who recently stated that he planned to move a large portion of his stock from Kentucky to his Shasta Farm in the northern part of the state; Charlie Howard, owner of Sea-biscuit, who bought the San Ysidro Stock Farm of the late Jack Atkin; H. M. Warner, motion picture executive, who has a new place at Calabassas in the upper San Fernando Valley — and many others too numerous to mention here.
