REPORT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION ^°- ^^ 



It was practicallj' impossible to procure the name of every staUion 

 owner in the Province, and in a very few of the townships it may be found 

 that this may slightly afiect the report on that particular township, but it 

 will not affect the report of the county to any appreciable extent. In some 

 few cases also, the owners would not allow their horses to be inspected, and 

 wherever a stallion was not inspected, the report of the mares in the tabu- 

 lated statement for the township in which such stallion is located will also 

 be affected. It should also be borne in mind that stallions are credited to 

 the townships in which they were located at the time of inspection, wheH' 

 they may possibly travel through the surrounding townships during the 

 season; this may give a somewhat erroneous impression regarding the town- 

 ships not credited, if this fact is not noted. It should also be specially 

 noted that the number of mares credited to any township in the tabulated 

 statement is the number of mares bred to stallions inspected in that town- 

 ship, and will not necessarily denote the number of breeding mares actu- 

 ally owned in the township. The information regarding the am^ount of ser- 

 vice fees, and the number of mares bred to each stallion was supplied the 

 Inspectors by the owner of the stallion. The Inspectors did not always 

 have an opportunity of verifying this information, and referring specially 

 to the service fees, it has been suggested that the advertised service fee was 

 cot always adhered to. 



In this report standard-bred horses and pure-bred horses are classed 

 together, the standard-bred horses being termed pure-bred as a matter of 

 convenience in preparing the report. The ame is also true of the term 

 grade being applied to denote non-standard-bred horses of roadster type. 

 Roadster stallions (Caradian-bred) include standard-bred horses bred in 

 Canada and stallions of Roadster type bred in Canada, but registered in 

 Records x)ther than the American! Trotting Register. Roadster grade 

 stallions include grade stallions of Roadster type not registered in any 

 record. 



The report following is compiled from the statistics and general in- 

 formation supplied by the Inspectors, the report from each district being^ 

 given separately. The report on each county in the above districts is given 

 by townships, with a summarized table and general information regarding 

 the whole county, given at the end of the county report. The remarks of 

 the Inspectors regarding the work generally are given at the end of the 

 report of the district which was under their charge. The report for each 

 district after being finally prepared was submitted to and approved by the 

 Inspectors for that district. A summarized report and statistics covering 

 the Province, in accordance with the above districts, completes the report 

 of the investigation. 



