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useful on our farms, and JauJ a ready market iu the great cities 

 of the state. And su 1 have asked Dr. Holliugvvorth of this city, 

 who has giveu the subject cousiderable attention, to discuss from 

 his standpoint, some of the needed changes in our stallion regis- 

 tration law. And it gives me great pleasure at this time to pre- 

 sent to jou i)r. W. G. Hollingworth, of Utica. 



Dr. Hollingworth : To say that the condition of horses in 

 this state is becoming very acute is a fact. And 1 see no reason 

 why, as the Commissioner stated, we cannot go to work and 

 change the type. We know, from the conditions as they exist 

 at the present time, that we are going rapidly behind as far as 

 number goes; and as the Commissioner has given you a number 

 of statistics in regard to this, which are naturally facts, if I 

 read some of those same conditions it would only show that we 

 have both gone over the same statistics. 



To show what horse-breeding will do in this state or any other 

 state, you take, for instance, JSI^ew Jersey and Pennsylvania, 

 which have improved stallion laws. What have they done ? At 

 the International Live Stock Association Show, held last year in 

 Chicago, they won all the prizes; they took the sweepstakes in 

 everything, from the stallions and mares and also from their get, 

 so that shows you what propagation will do in that line. 



With these few remarks I will read a paper which has been 

 alloted to me. 



SOME NEEDED CHANGES IN THE STALLION REGISTRATION LAW 

 Dr. W. G. Hollingworth, Utica, IST. Y. 



If a pure-blood stallion law could be passed, the breeding from 

 pure-blood sires would be the topic of discussion in every fanuing 

 community ; and this, if nothing else, would be considered a most 

 valuable effect of the new legislation. It would be educational 

 to all those interested in breeding, selling, buying or using the 

 horse. 



So long as we are satisfied to run along in the same old rut, 

 little can be accomplished; but when we awake from the slumber 

 and see the importance and need of study, the employment of 

 modern means, and the eradication of our faulty conditions, 

 changes for the better will be forthcoming. Something is needed 



