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years. The highest authority of the Federation is the meeting 

 of representatives, one for each federated society ; the meeting 

 elects a managing committee consisting of the chairman and 

 two members. The committee appoints a salaried managing 

 chief clerk. The object of this Federation is, of course, the 

 development of Jutland horse breeding. In Funen the 

 societies interested in the breeding of heavy draught horses 

 formed, in 1893, " The Federated Funen Horse Breeding 

 Societies," comprising 33 societies with Jutland stallions, and 

 11 societies with Belgian stalHons. The total membership of 

 the Societies was about 2400. Each society pays about 30s. 

 a year. There is a meeting of representatives, and a managing 

 committee. The chairman is the representative of the Federa- 

 tion in " The Federation of Funen Agricultural Societies." In 

 1902 the societies in Sealand for breeding heavy horses formed 

 " The Federated Sealand Horse Breeding Societies," but later 

 on the societies breeding Belgian or mixed Belgian and Jutland 

 horses seceded and formed " The Belgian Horse Breeders* 

 Society in Sealand," with 10 societies (420 members) and about 

 140 private breeders. After that the first-named society added 

 in 1914 the words : " for Breeding Jutland Horses," to its name. 

 Members of this Federation are either co-operative or joint-stock 

 horse-breeding societies or private breeders, the subscription is 

 2s. per brood mare. There are eight federated societies with 

 about 600 members. A salaried chief clerk keeps the stud- 

 books, the records of services and of the results of judging 

 stallions and mares. A similar Federation for breeding 

 Jutland horses was formed in 1913 for Lolland and Falster, 

 with 19 societies and 773 members. 



The societies interested in light horses have been somewhat 

 less successful in forming associations or federations because 

 the different individual societies had different aims, often 

 determined by the particular stallion or stalhons purchased by 

 the societies. In 1889 an Association was formed in Frederiks- 

 borg district in Sealand with 24 societies, and one in Prcesto 

 with 8 societies. Other associations were attempted, but 

 they came to nothing, and the one founded in Prcesto did 

 not last for many years, the individual societies preferring 

 to be independent. Most of the Horse Breeding Societies in 



