PART XIII 



Horse Breeding Industry in Iowa 



List of State Gertiticates Issued from May 1, 1909 to 



May I, 1910 



Copy of laws govern state enrollment of Stallions 



In presentiug the list of owners and names of stallions for which state 

 certificates have been issued from May 1, 1909, to May 1, 1910. we deem 

 it highly important, as well as a duty, to point out what in oi;r opinion 

 is the deficiency in the Iowa stallion registration law. 



Since the enactment of this law by the Thirty-first General Assembly 

 similar laws have been enacted by many other states. Wisconsin, we be- 

 lieve, was the first state to enact a law requiring the issuance of a state 

 certificate for all stallions offered for public service. Iowa next recognized 

 the importance of such a law for the improvement of the hoi'se breeding 

 industry of the state, and following rapidly upon the heels of V/isconsin 

 and Iowa laws similar action was taken in the states of Illinois, Minne- 

 sota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, Idaho. Pennsylvnia, New 

 Jersey, etc. The one good feature of the Iowa law, which we believe to be 

 the correct principle, is that it does not recognize any other than pure 

 bred stallions, while in most of the other states named certificates are is- 

 sued to cross-bred, grades, and mongrels, as well as pure bred. However, 

 the Iowa law is lamentably weak in four particulars, which should be rem- 

 edied by the Thirty-fourth General Assembly: 



First. The Iowa law does not require the examination of the stallion 

 by a competent veterinarian before a state certificate is issued, as required 

 in almost all other states. Under the present law the secretary of the 

 department of agriculture must issue a state certificate, regardless of the 

 condition of the stallion, if upon examination the certificate of registra- 

 tion issued by the stud book association in which such stallion has been 

 registered is found to be correct. By reason of the rigid examination re- 

 quired in other states before state certificate is issued, and the barring 

 of all animals from public service, regardless of breeding, showing signs 

 of any infectious, contagious or transmissible disease or unsoundness, 



