DRAUGHT HORSE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION.
There ,is a movement on foot (writes our -Wairarapa correspondent) to form a .draught horso: breeders' association 1 in Masterton. : Tlie idea is x a good one, because it is generally agreed ,that there are a. number of .unsound stallions always on the market during the season, transmitting their' defects to their progeny. In fact, at a show held some timo ago; in the Wellington Province,' tho judge stated that out of tho eight animals .shown there was only one which, in his opinion, had no defects. It has often happened that an\ enterprising farmer has paid £500 for a first-class stallion, and then found that he could gain no patronage, because owners, who had a poor class of animals, and chargod low fees,, sloped a largo amount of tho .business. What is wanted is an annual official inspection of .draught stallions, arid . then the farmers 'Would know whom to patronise.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 238, 1 July 1908, Page 3
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155DRAUGHT HORSE BREEDERS' ASSOCIATION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 238, 1 July 1908, Page 3
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