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time will never come when the State of New York will have to 

 engage in the horse-breeding industry by owning stallions. Where 

 that has been tried in this country it has not worked out, and is 

 not working out as satisfactorily as the promoters of that plan 

 fondly hoped. Some states find that they have upon their hands 

 stallions for which they paid very large prices, away beyond 

 what individuals would be required to pay, and that their services 

 are not being utilized to the extent they ought to be. And this 

 should not be undertaken, in my judgTuent, until at least every 

 other means to get the proper sires before the public has been 

 tried and foimd lacking. But Mr. Powell suggests what, to my 

 mind, may be a solution of this troublesome question — that the 

 highest type of sire should be available to approved mares at 

 a comparatively nominal fee, and I believe that it should be the 

 policy of the state to subsidize, in some way, stallions of an 

 approved type, so that they could stand for the public service at 

 a nominal fee, so that there should be some incentive on the part 

 of the stallion owner for the purpose of enabling those stallions 

 to stand at a fee which would be generally utilized by the owners 

 of mares. 



I think we would like to hear from Mr. Ward on this subject. 



Mr. Ward: I did not suppose the Commissioner would call 

 upon me to say anything, for it has been some years since I have 

 been breeding any horses. But I do believe that this is one of the 

 most important steps that has ever been considered at a meeting 

 of the State Breeders' Association, and I hope and believe that 

 some action will be taken, before this meeting closes, that will look 

 to a condition of affairs that will make it possible to breed good 

 horses in the State of New York. 



I want to agree with every word that Mr. Powell has said ; 

 but further than that, I believe that one reason why we have such 

 a dearth of good horses in New York State is that there is little 

 incentive to breed good horses, because there is not a demand 

 sufficient to bring the best class of purchasers in the state. We 

 are buying horses outside instead of selling them. And if we had 

 a type of horse, a class of horse, that would call the best class of 

 buyers into the rural districts, there would be a demand for horses 



