HORSE-BREEDING DEPOST IN EUROPE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1648, 29 August 1887, Page 3

HORSE-BREEDING DEPOST IN EUROPE.

Reports have been presented to Parliament from Her Majesty's dlplomatio agents at Paris, Ylenna, and Berlin, on the subject of horse-breeding depots m France, Austria, and Germany. In Franoe there are twenty-two State depots for the keeping of stallions, and there has been established a school called 1 li'Ecole de Harar, 1 the graduates of which are to be entitled to appointments ai officers of studs. Two thousand five hundrad horses are kept. The annual grant of £325.520 li reduoed by receipt from the hire of stallions to £267,720. The breeding establishments of Austria* Hungary are under separate regulations for the two countries. Austria grants » little over £80,000, and Hungary £116.600 for the enoouragement of horsebreeding, m addition to prises for racing, •te.- The Royal breeding establishments m Prussia oome under the administration Of the Minister of Agriculture, and have ft budget whioh Is annually laid before Parliament, amounting to about £80,000. The 15 other establishments are situated In provinces of Prussia, and Mtlfetfaot depots for the atallions bred In im firit-named studs, and which, by fthii means, are placed at the service of the public for a very small consideration, and m faot supply continually remounts for the Prussian cavalry.