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Community-Buying Idea Approved by Horsemen New England Division of HPBA Votes Unanimously for Method BOSTON, Mass., May 20. The New England divisional committee of the Horsemans Protective and Benevolent Association at a meeting last night unanimously approved a proposal for community buying by members of the group of hay, grain and straw as a means of effecting a reduction in present high cost of training expenses. The committee stated that the organization has not thought of going into the feed business, but it is willing to handle the pool subscriptions of its members for stated amounts of hay, oats and straw, the same to bs received in carload lots and delivered to members of the pool at their stables at actual cost. All pools will be on the carload lot basis and all shipments will be subject to the committees approval as to quality. These will be strictly for members only, and it will be a strictly cash on the bulk-head proposition with no profit in the thing for anybody. Already one pool has been made up for a 15-ton carload of one-third clover, two-thirds long timothy hay at a cost to those in the pool of 3.50 delivered. Horsemen are now paying at Suffolk Downs about 25 per cent more for a similar quantity of hav. t Treasurer Harold O. Simmons, who is handling the actual delivery in behalf of pool subscribers, said the first carload entirely on order would arrive within the next day or two and that he now had almost enough subscriptions for a second carload. A carload pool on oats is now being organized, the car being ordered when a total of 2,000 bushels have been subscribed. The oats of a 40-42-pound grade will stand subscribers 78 cents, plus actual delivery charges and 12 cents a piece for bags which will be redeemable. A 15-ton pool on rye straw, costing the Horsemens Protective and Benevolent Association members 1.50, is also being formed. The committee also voted to call a general meeting of the New England division for Monday evening of this week when several matters of importance will be discussed and a nominating committee appointed. Coffee and sandwiches will be served, with the meeting starting at 7:30 oclock.
