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Show Getting Good Horses. "It Is admit tori by all the governments ana was proven by the Brltlsb commission commis-sion ot 1S9G tlitit the only way to get cavalry cav-alry horsep Ih by means or the thoroughbred thorough-bred erors,' John I". Ryan., bead of the Canadian national bureau of breeding f m lo. .a WaalHiigton Post roport'.r: Whf-n it is eoimMcrcd that the province of Alberta In Canada, is twice as large y'Tfll 13r,lal'i ;ind Ireland and that ha.skatcbewan is larger than France or Germany, the scarcity of good saddle .ind cava ry horses Is cause for wonder. Hut the hundreds of apncals t0 the bureau bu-reau from the Canadian Northwest show the cause of this condition. "Tho farmers and small breeders have no thoroughbreds to breed from. Every b-tter we receive from the northwest tells the flame Htory. Pud each is an earnest appeal for a thoroughbred horse. Thcr Is not an aurleultural sorb-tv between Uinnlpeg and the l'aclllc ocean that has not joined In the appeal. "Tho plane of tho bureau nre to supply all the reujicsU. but if we can mot only a part of the demand, th next time nh emergency arisen, the millions spent for cavalry horses will not go to enrich the Argentine. Austria-Hungary and other notions, as was the case during the Boer -ar'.. IC'M u,at struggle was In progress lMiglleh buyers went to Canada, but were compelled to go buck empty handed, "'n do not intend that this shall over again happen. We believe In Kipling's mott o, 'Kep the money In I lift family ' und it. was largely for this reason -that the Canadian national bureau of breeding was organized. Th Dominion Is trvlng lo niaki; it u national affair, and is not confining con-fining it to a single state, or a. fey states, "8 is the case In the United States." |