TO HELP HORSE-BREEDERS.

NZ Truth, Issue 570, 20 May 1916, Page 9

TO HELP HORSE-BREEDERS.

In splto of the strain and BtresH that confronts the British Government m relation to the war, it is finding time, and cash, to establish horsebreeding establishments. The scarcity of horses for war purposes has been brought home to Ule War Authorities with unpleasant force, and it is resolved that a similar condition shall not arise m tho future. The Government is establishing a dopot at Rustsley, and tho stallions that will be located tpere will be for the free service or all half-bred mares that are suitable to breed cavalry remounts. TheTßiisatey stallions will be of the stoutest strain of pure blood that monoy can purchase. What the British Govorsmont is doing m tho Old Country our Government might, with great advantage, repeat hero.. Or, better still, provide H/?.veral suitable stallions to travel the countryßida, serving certificated mures free of charge; a condition of this service being that tho Dominion Bhoijld in' time of war, or for military or State purposes, have first call on the stock, a record of which would bo kept. The advantages aro evident; the ordinary horse-owners would secure stock of a much hlßher quality than thoy can ever hope to get under existing conditions The horeea of this country would, within n few years, nviko for o\>r Block a name that no other hors«breodlng country could taccol. Whin occasion arose that horses were promptly wanted, the right sort would be available. /There would not be the opportunities of the post for the horsecoper and grafter to got m their ttne work as buyers and Kellers of horses wanted. "When friendly nations Bent their mock orders hero, n» they hnvo done, thoy could rely that bred-try©-to-label goods would bo delivered, and not crooks, bred from woods. Old^r and wiser, and far moro conservative, countries than Now -Zealand Imy* no hesitation m fostering and assisting tho horso-breedlng Industry, and why we should shy at no sano a roothod m not clear.