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Grant for Light Horse Breeding. 



[JAN., 



scheme. Service fees will not be paid for more than 90 mares 

 in any one year. The fee to be charged to the owner of a 

 mare by the owner of the stallion is to be limiteo! to £2, 

 exclusive of the groom's fee (2s. 6d.). The amounts of the 

 various payments have been so arranged as to secure that 

 the owner of a King's Premium stallion which travels a 

 district and serves 50 mares will, on an average, receive 

 approximately ^150 in the season, in addition to the fees 

 payable by the owner of the mare. 



(2) Board's Premiums. — The stallions for whom these 

 premiums are paid will be selected either at a local spring 

 exhibition or by the Board themselves on the application of the 

 owner, and will in all cases be subject to approval as to sound- 

 ness and suitability by a veterinary surgeon nominated by the 

 Board. The Board's Premium will be made up of service and 

 foal fees, and, as in the case of a King's Premium stallion, 

 the owner of the stallion will be required to enter into an 

 agreement to allow his stallion to serve, if required, not fewer 

 than 50 mares, exclusive of mares for the service of which a 

 free nomination has been given by the Board to the owner 

 of the mare and of any mare which has been purchased or 

 leased to a farmer or other person in connection with the 

 scheme. Service fees will not be paid for more than 90 mares 

 in any one year. The fee to be charged to the owner of a 

 mare by the owner of the stallion is to be limited to £i t 

 exclusive of the groom's fee (2s. 6d.). The amounts of the 

 various payments have been so arranged as to secure that the 

 owner of a Board's Premium stallion which travels a district 

 and serves 50 mares will, on an average, receive approxi- 

 mately £75 in the season, in addition to the fees payable by 

 the owner of the mare. 



Both in the case of a King's Premium stallion and a 

 Board's Premium stallion the covering fee will be larger in 

 amount where the stallion does not merely stand for service, 

 but travels in the district. 



The Board also propose to award a limited number of 

 premiums of smaller amounts for pony stallions. 



Purchase of Brood Mares. 



It is proposed that the moneys available for this purpose 

 shall be expended locally through the agency of County Com- 



