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co-operation among agriculturists in England and Wales, 

 and the Commissioners also had before them an application 

 from the Agricultural Organisation Society, and took evidence 

 in connection with both applications. An interim grant to 

 the Society was contemplated at the close of the year. 



Horse and Live Stock Breeding. — The Commissioners 

 received on the 26th July, 1910, an application by the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries for a grant of ;^5o,ooo per 

 annum, of which ;^5,ooo was to be devoted to live-stock other 

 than horses, and ;£"45,ooo to the encouragement of light-horse 

 breeding in Great Britain, and after taking evidence the 

 Commissioners recommended the Treasury to advance 

 ;^36,ooo for one year to the Board by way of grant, to be 

 expended generally as follows : — 



;€ 



(a) Payment of premiums to the owners of stallions ... 13,000 

 {h) Encouragement of the keeping of brood mares ... 10,000 



(c) Free nominations for the service of mares by 



premium stallions 3,000 



(d) Purchase of stallions 5, 000 



(e) Registration of stallions ... ... ... ... ... 5,000 



In order to secure the elasticity which they considered 

 necessary to the inauguration of a new scheme, the Com- 

 missioners reported that in their opinion the Board should be 

 allowed some latitude in making transfers from one head of 

 expenditure to the other, and in altering the character of 

 their operations in detail. 



The Commissioners suggested further that in the event of 

 the Treasury favourably considering their recommendation, 

 it should be intimated to the Board that the Treasury and 

 the Commissioners will be prepared, if the result of the first 

 year's working seems to justify a continuance of the experi- 

 ment, and the state of the Development Fund permits of 

 further advances, to consider favourably an application for a 

 second grant at or near the end of a year from the date 

 when the first advance was made — assumino- that by that time 

 it had been almost or quite exhausted. 



The Commissioners recommended also as a condition of 

 the advance that a majoritv of the members of each of the 

 local committees formed under the scheme should be 

 nominated hv the Countv Council or Councils concerned. 



