OUTLOOK FOR CLYDESDALES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19374, 24 December 1932, Page 10

OUTLOOK FOR CLYDESDALES.

Prospects of the horse-breeding industry are far brighter now than a year ago, according to the report submitted to the Federal Council of the Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society at its annual meeting held during the currency of the Melbourne Royal Show. The report added that present conditions were all the more encouraging because the movement in favour of the horse wac world-wide. However reports from all parts of Australia showed that the breeding of horses was was being taken up by many hundreds of farmers* who had little or no experience as breeders. It was necessary to point out the necessity for discrimination . in breeding and to encourage the use of stallions which were sound, true to type, and of undoubted purity. It was desirable that there should be uniform regulations governing breeding throughout Australia. Several stallions of quality had been imported from Scotland and New Zealand in the last 12 months by studmasters in all the mainland States. The value of these importations could not be overestimated. The report added that a considerable increase in membership of the society had taken place. For volume seven of the Stud Book 92 stallions, 158 mares, and 210 foals had been registered.