No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 653 



up to a good sire, and then go a little farther and take away from 

 them a certain class of sires that are absolutely detrimental to the 

 horse breeding interests of the State. 



Now, I don't care to talk too much about this. I have talked about 

 it and written about it until you must be tired hearing it. Last year 

 the law was pretty much in prospect. Now, we have had it in opera- 

 tion about a year, and have had a chance to see hoAv it works. There 

 are some cases where the law has been violated, and horses were mis- 

 represented. For instance, we have known a certificate to be altered 

 in regard to the age of the horse it described. In another case the 

 little word "not" was taken out — of course by "printer's error !" 



Then, there has been another class of men who have been careless 

 in the matter of pedigree registration. They have come along with 

 a "somebody said so," expecting to get a pure bred certificate, but, 

 on the whole, if you were to ask Knight of the Trotting Association 

 and Glenn of the Percheron Association, you would find that they 

 made a good many more registeries this year than last. 



Then, there is another thing of note, and that is: the number of 

 horses coming into the State. A new draft horse came into Mercer 

 county this week, I understand, and one came into Chester — Dela- 

 ware count}' — an excellent horse ; and one into New Castle. Within 

 the last few months a large number of fine horses have come into the 

 State. Now, it seems to me this a mark of confidence. These men 

 began to think they had some protection, and went out and made 

 these purchases, and I believe ihat when you take these things into 

 consideration, you must admit that this has been an improvement. 



