BROOD MARE SOCIETY

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1685, 15 June 1904, Page 64

BROOD MARE SOCIETY

The primary object of the . reoeatlyformed Brood Mare Society Qays the “Morning Post”) aims at impressing on stock-owners the fundamental importance of retaining in their studs and in the country their best brood mares. Much is written and spoken in reference to the necessity of paying strict attention to the breeding and merits of the sire 3 employed, but comparatively little is heard regarding the importance of looking alter the mares. Yet the sires may be accounted of superior importance only in tLat the influence they exert is wider; it <s not more prepotent when judged in an individual sense, and it is an absolute certainty that consistent success is not attainable it the quality of the dam is ignored. It is perhaps correct to say that to a certain point this truth is recognised by a much larger number of stock-ow-ners than are found to act up to it. They appreciate the advantages of hign merit in the female members of their studs —and the same applies equally to herds—but not quire to an extent that would render them secure against yielding to temptation in the shape of big prices which at one time or another come bo all owners of the best class of mares or cows. The Society referred to is to ~ry to prevent the deterioration of the breeding resources of the country in this way by impressing on the minds of breeders the error of allowing the best brood mares to go out of the country. A large number of males, even of the highest grade, we can dispense with, but all the good females are required at home.