§ MR. JEFFREYSI beg to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that a Committee representing the Central Chamber of Agriculture, the Suffolk Horse Society, and the Clydesdale Horse Society, recommended in February, 1897, that Parliament should be asked to make an annual grant for providing premiums for stallions suitable for agricultural purposes, such grants to be entrusted to the Royal Commission on Horse Breeding for administration; and whether he will consider the desirability of proposing a grant for the encouragement of the breeding of agricultural horses?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERMy hon. Friend asked me a similar question last year, and I can only refer him to the answer I then gave. I cannot speak with any authority, but I am myself disposed to doubt whether premiums for cart stallions are necessary for the purpose suggested in the Question.