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that would pay a higher profit than any other one thing the 

 farmers con Id do. 



I do not know what it is possible to do for the passage of laws 

 that would bcnciit the breeders, but there are two or three things 

 which I think ought to be done. I would make it impossible to 

 register any grade stallion. I would not register anything except 

 a pure-bred stallion, and protect that man. And when we breed 

 the class of horses that we should breed, a class of horses that the 

 best market demands, we will find that there is more profit in 

 breeding good horses than any other thing we can do on the farm. 



The latest government statistics show that the cost of breeding 

 or producing horses is about $155 during the first three years of 

 age. You all know that the class of horses in greatest demand 

 are selling at a very high j^rice, and there is no better place in 

 the country than right here in ISTew York State. One of the six- 

 horse teams that won first prize at Chicago was bred in Massachu- 

 setts. I believe we can breed good horses here in this state, 

 where conditions are much better than they are in Massachusetts. 



If there is encouragement through subsidy, or something of that 

 kind, to protect the owners of good stallions, and to protect at the 

 same time men who are buying pure-bred mares and raising colts 

 for sale, so that they can get a better price for their colts, we will 

 find that wc have gone a long way ahead if some move is made 

 toward the enactment of laws that will protect our horse-breeders 

 through inspection, as Mr. Powell says, and through registration 

 that will protect the owners of pure-bred sires. 



Mr. Akin : I believe that this stallion law is one of the vital 

 things in this state. I find that in other states they are eliminat- 

 ing the unsound stallion, and if they are actually doing that they 

 are putting this state to a disadvantage. Only last Saturday I 

 was in Indiana, and at a large breeder's stable there he showed me 

 a stallion that was wind-broken. He said, " You can use that 

 stallion in vour state, but we cannot use him here." Just think 

 of it, we are the dumping ground of unsound stallions of other 

 states. 



I believe it should be against the law to allow an unsound 

 stallion to be used or imported or sold. Then we will be on the 

 same footing as the other countries. Until we do that, we will 



