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REPORT OF SPECIAL INVESTIGATION 



No. 65 



Bruce — Concluded. 



Mares Bred to Different Classes of Stallions. 



The public meeting for the county of Bruce was held at Paisley on 

 Friday, November 2nd. One hundred horsemen were present, representing 

 all parts of the county, some having driven over 30 miles to be present. 



After a lengthy discussion of the horse breeding industry in general it 

 was unanimously resolved : "That this meeting strongly approves of some 

 drastic legislation in favor of horse breeding, and is in favor of the compul- 

 sory inspection and licensing of all stallions standing for service ; require- 

 ments for ^icense to be freedom from hereditary unsoundness, and registra- 

 tion in a recognized record of the Dominion of Canada alid a reasonably 

 good formation." 



Coupled with the above, the meeting also voted in favor of a Lien Act, 

 giving the stallion owner a lie(n on the mare and foal until the insurance 

 was paid. 



Gket. 



Sires of the heavy breeds have a monopoly in Bentinck and Xormanby 

 townships in the county of Grey. In Bentinck there are just two stallions 

 an ira;ported Clydegdale and a Percheron, both sound, and of fair merit. 

 Fees are |13 and $12, respectively. Normanby has three more than Bent- 

 inck to its credit, viz., four Clydesdales (of which one is a grade), and a 

 Percheron. There is one case of unsoundness, and the standard is fair. For 

 the grade |9 is the fee charged, but two pure-breds have even lower fees 

 $7 and |8, while the others stand at |12 and flS. Mares are mostly of the 

 agricultural type, with some 135 of light, and 100 of heavy draught class. 



Only three stallions are located in Glenelg township, an imported 

 Clydesdale, a Percheron and a grade Roadster. Two out of the three are 

 sound and conformation is fair. Eight, ten and eleven dollars are the fees 

 cliarged. Of the 204 mares, 130 are agricultural in type, 50 draught and 24 

 light, with an average, weight of 1,250 lbs. and of fair quality. 



In Egremont, as in the other townships of the south riding of Grey, the 

 Inspectors found a smaller i percentage of draught mares than in the other 

 districts through which they travelled. In this township the agricultural 

 tjT-'e is strong with 700 in number, the draught type comes next" with 420, 

 followed by the light with 320. The average weight of the whole is 1,250. 

 and thej are fair in quality. The percentage, on the other hand, of heavy 

 draught stallions is very large as compared with the light breeds, being 



