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in general. It is practical, as has been shown by the experiment in 

 Virginia during the season of 1911. 



10. To add $50 or $100 to the price now paid for remounts would 

 be wasting money. The farmer now receives as good a price for his 

 colts from the Army as anyone else pays. If this plan were pur- 

 sued, the Government would make no progress whatever toward the 

 solution of the breeding problem, for it could have no influence on 

 the methods used except in an indirect and futile way. 



11. The general effects of the plan on horse breeding would be 

 decidedly beneficial. It would tend to specialize horse breeding, it 

 would discourage the breeding of unsound horses, and it would open 

 up the market for horses of the Army type by creating a supply that 

 foreign buyers would soon take to their advantage. 



12. The horse-breeding projects of the Department of Agriculture 

 now in progress may lend somewhat to the Army horse project, but 

 they were not designed with that in view, and it would not be pro- 

 posed to alter their purpose on account of the Army project. 



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