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ing the law. If a lien clause were incorporated in the stallion law, 

 stating that only siuh stallion owners as had complied with all the 

 requirements of the law, could avail themselves of the right to collect 

 fees under that law, it would naturally make all stallion owners very 

 desirous to fulfill all the provisions of the law. 



Much criticism is made in regard to the fact that there is no 

 specified list of hereditary unsoundness in the law. This fact, how- 

 ever, was gone over in detail by your committee at the meeting two 

 years ago. Since that time Dr. W. L. Williams, of Cornell, read a 

 paper at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania State ^^eterinary 

 Medical Association which confirmed in every sense of the word the 

 report made by your committee on this subject and brought out 

 more forcibly the importance of allowing great leeway in the subject 

 of hereditary or transmissible unsoundness or disease. There appears 

 to be no condition in the list of those usuall}' considered as heredi- 

 tary unsoundness without illustrious exceptions. 



After all the subject of type and conformation appears to pre- 

 dominate most prominently in the subject of transmission, and while 

 we would not recommend prospective buyers to purchase stallions 

 that are afflicted with blindness, ringbones, spavins, navicular dis- 

 eases, cryp torchidism, roaring, heaves or sidebones or breed to such 

 sires or dams; yet where horses develop these conditions during 

 service, the law should deal with them leniently and clients should 

 not be too critical. 



KEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE ON POULTKY 



By W. THEO. WITTMAN, Chairman 



Never, within the history of the State of Pennsylvania, has there 

 been such a widespread and insistent interest in poultry and poultry 

 keeping as has been manifested within the year just past. Probably 

 this is the result, partly, of the ever continuing, upward trend of the 

 already high prices poultry and poultry products demand; thereby 

 calling attention to and emphasizing the profits probable and pos- 

 sible in poultry keeping; partly, of the aggressive and widespread 

 advertising in all classes of current publications, (from the small 

 country weekly up to the highest priced of the biggest dailies and 

 magazines) of poultry and poultry keeping; partly of the widespread 

 awakening in the cities and towns to the desirability of country liv- 

 ing, and the idea of these that by keeping a few chickens the enter- 

 ing wedge of a livelihood in the country would be solved ; and, part- 

 ly, by farmers being today more thoroughly awake than ever to the 

 fact that the biggest money profits are possible in specialty farming 

 as against general farming, and that poultry keeping may be an 

 easy and profitable specialty farming. 



The people of Pennsylvania, together with the rest of the country, 

 liave spent individually small, but in the aggregate, what must be 

 large sums of money, in buying so-called get-rich-quick "systems" of 



