HORSE BREEDING IN FRANCE.
The French Government distributed last year £840,000 as prizes at horse shows and otherwise in fostering the horse breeding industry The encouragement give horse breeders in France takes the form of cash and other prizes offered for stalilons and breeding stock at shows and bounties to the owners of approved stallions standing for service at moderate prices. In addition tu this, the Government maintains 3445 well bred stallions of its own, which last year were bred to 150,935 mares. The approved stallions on which bounty was paid served 92,482 mares, making a total of 244,136 mares bred in France in one season under Government supervision. France is more advanced, perhaps, ihan any nation in tne world in encouragement extended to horse breeders.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 447, 13 March 1912, Page 3
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126HORSE BREEDING IN FRANCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 447, 13 March 1912, Page 3
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