CHAPTER NINE 



THE GOVERNMENT AS A BREEDER 



THE United States as a government has never 

 until now conducted any horse-breeding experi- 

 ments. Army officers have frequently tried to in- 

 duce the War Department to start a breeding es- 

 tablishment so that remounts of a proper kind 

 could be supplied to the cavalry. But the idea has 

 never appealed to Congress, and in this particu- 

 lar direction nothing has been done. Dr. D. E. 

 Salmon, the accomplished chief of the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department, 

 has inserted what may be the " entering- wedge " 

 for at the Colorado Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion a few mares and stallions have been assem- 

 bled, and an effort will be made to breed a type of 

 carriage horses, a type badly needed. Of this ex- 

 periment Dr. Salmon says: 



" In the countries of the world where horse 



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