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help of the Brood Mare Society ; (2) a portion to be used in 

 advancing loans to individuals or Societies to purchase suit- 

 able sires, or expended by the Government in purchasing 

 them and letting them out ; (3) a portion to be spent in giving 

 additional prizes in cases where the Government regulations 

 are carried out ; (4) a portion to be devoted to expenses ; 

 (5) a competent committee to be appointed to assist in giving 

 effect to the above. These suggestions have already received 

 the unanimous support of the Council of the Hunters' 

 Improvement Society and of the Brood Mare Society, and 

 have been submitted to the President of the Board of 

 Agriculture, carrying the full weight and authority of the 

 various bodies which have had them under examination. ', 



" Should these proposals meet with the approbation of 

 Lord Carrington, he will be. in a strong position to lay them 

 before His Majesty's Treasury, and the position which this 

 question has now attained justifies the hope that action may 

 be taken to place an industry, so important to agriculturalists, 

 and so vital to our military necessities, on a satisfactory and 

 enduring basis." 



ARMY REMOUNTS 



The class of horses required for the army may be 

 generally described as follows (Army Regulations, edited) : 



WAR OFFICE, LONDON, S.W., November 1904. 



Ages. For peace, 4-off to 6 years ; for war, 6 to 10 years. 



Heights. Household Cavalry (black). At 4 years, 15.3 ; 

 at 5 years, 16 hands. Cavalry. At 4 years, 15.0^ to 15.2^ 

 hands; at 5 years, 15.1 to 15.3 hands. Royal Artillery. 15.3 

 hands. Mounted Infantry.^ 14.3 to 15.0^ hands (5 years and 

 over only). Colours. Whites and greys are only required 

 for special purposes, and are always specially ordered. 

 Other very light or washy coloured horses are not accepted. 



Entire, unmanageable or vicious horses, crib-biters, wind- 

 suckers, parrot-mouthed, or undershot-jawed horses, or those 

 with capped elbows, damaged knees, or with injured or deficient 

 teeth, are not admissible animals. Horses with short docks 

 will not be accepted. Soundness in eyes, wind, and limb 

 are essential ; no stale, upright, or overshot joints, and no 

 curby hocks will be passed. The class required is a deep, 

 short-legged, short-backed, good barrelled horse, of the 



