good an argument as any in favour of the proposal that in 

 future the District Board should cease to provide the whole 

 cost of the bull. It would no doubt be undesirable for the 

 District Board to withdraw from all participation in a most 

 popular enterprise. But there is no reason why the yearly 

 allotment should not be made to go twice as far as it does by 

 restricting the District Board's share in the cost of bulls provided 

 for selected villages or co-operative credit societies to one half. 



In this way the villages would be brought to some sense of 



i responsibility in the matter of the bull's maintenance, while the 



District Board bearing half the cost would still be in a position to 



impose conditions as to the inspection of the bull and his produce 



by Veterinary officers, 



(Hi). Improvement rf village breeding. 



The present high prices of cereals and the lack of grazing 

 grounds restrict the numbers of cattle which the zamindar is dis- 



X* posed to breed. But if the number of animals cannot be increased 

 efforts should at least be made to improve their quality. The bulls 

 provided by the District Board, even if their number is increased 

 by the adoption of the proposals made in the preceding paragraph, 

 will always remain the smaller proportion of the bulls which the 

 province requires. The improvement of the ordinary bull, 

 whether provided by the village community or dedicated by the 

 pious Hindu, is a matter to which attention must be devoted. 

 Where the zamindar is alive to the profits to be obtained from 

 stock breeding efforts are already being made. In Rohtak the 



x zamindars select their bulls with great care, but complain of the 

 inferior animals let loose by banias in towns and large villages. 

 Even in Gujranwala, where cattle-breeding receives no special 

 attention, the Deputy Commissioner reports that zamindars have 

 refused offers of inferior bulls which rich Hindus proposed to let 

 loose in the name of charity. In Hissar a scheme initiated by 

 Major Farmer of the Government Cattle Farm met with some 

 success. The object of this scheme was to enlist the sympathy of 

 charitable Hindus in the improvement of cattle, and to this end the 

 District Board agreed to pay, as far as funds permitted, a portion 

 of the price of a Government bred bull, if the other portion was 

 forthcoming from private sources, the bull being then loosed in 

 the names of private contributors. This arrangement appealing 

 as it does to the religious feelings of the Hindu community should 

 be capable of development and is well worth a general trial. The 

 Townsend Agricultural Society of Hissar, though at present de- 

 voting its attention to the encouragement of camel- breeding, con- 

 tains members who are generally active in getting rid of bad bulls 



n out of their zails and villages. With regard to this important 



