1906 ON HORSE BREEDING IN ONTARIO. 83 



On tario Con cl u ded . 



At the Port Perry meeting held November 13th for the County of On- 

 tario, sixty-five were present. The following are points taken by some of the 

 speakers and approved of by those present : 



An Inspection and License law might do good, but there might be con- 

 siderable difficulty in carrying out the work of inspection and licensing. 

 If a license law were passed it should also extend to an inspection of the 

 progeny, and to imported horses at time of landing. Men should club 

 together and in this way get good sires by forming a syndicate, if this is 

 properly done. Horses not registered, and not serviceably sound should not 

 be allowed to stand for service. A license fee should be only as high as will 

 meet the cost of inspection. The Government should encourage Agricul- 

 tural Societies to give premiums to good horses and get them into a neigh- 

 borhood. Government should inspect and license first, and then encourage 

 societies to give premiums afterwards. In Scotland, in lieu of premiums, 

 90 to 100 mares is the limit that district stallions are allowed to "serve. 

 There are just two classes of horses that are profitable, the heavy horse and 

 the harness horse. The expert judges sent out should report to- the Govern- 

 ment the class of horses found in the different districts in the Province. 

 There are many light horses travelling in this locality which have never 

 left a good colt. This district is pre-eminently fitted for the breeding of 

 heavy horses. A License law should be brought into operation at once. The 

 following motion was moved by Jno. Yipond, seconded by Herb. Collacott, 

 and carried unanimously : 



"We the breeders and horsemen of the riding of South Ontario do 

 hereby request that a license be placed on stallions in this riding, and also 

 that none but a stallion of recognized breed be allowed to be used for ser- 

 vice, and that he be recorded in our Stud Book, or in the book of the coun- 

 try in which he was bred. We also would request that an unsound stallion 

 be not granted a license when his unsoundness is of an hereditary nature, 

 such as side bones, spavin, ringbones, etc., and further, that there be a li- 

 cense fee of $25. Also that the Government should encourage horse breed- 

 ers' associations and district societies." 



SPECIAL REPORT OF INSPECTORS. 



We beg to submit herewith our own impressions gained while engaged 

 on the work of horse inspection, and our own opinion as to whether the horse 

 industry of the Province would be best encouraged by means of a Govern- 

 ment Inspection and License law. 



At the outset, according to instructions we sought to keep our own 

 counsel, and endeavored to draw out the opinions of the owners of stallions, 

 uninfluenced by 'any ideas or suggestions made by us. Although the majority 

 of the stallion owners seemed to favor inspection and license, yet with the 

 exception of two or three individuals, none seemed to realize, that, in the 

 event of such an act coming into force, their own animals would fall under 

 the ban. Although the report shows that a large percentage of stallion 

 owners favor the Inspection and License system, yet, in conversation your 

 Inspectors were strongly impressed with the idea that the great majority of 

 those had given the matter very little serious consideration, and therefore 

 were not in a position to give an opinion as the result of careful and mature 

 deliberation. As a consequence, when the public meetings were held, and 

 some half dozen or so would express themselves as being favorable to inspec- 



