1012 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



aminers, or veterinarian licensed by said board, who sliall make affi- 

 davit tliat such animal is free from hereditary, infectious, contagious 

 or transmissible disease or unsoundness, and shall file the same with 

 the secretary of the state board of agriculture. Any veterinarian who 

 knowingly or wilfully makes a false report upon the disease or free- 

 dom from disease, or soundness or unsoundness of the animal brought 

 to him for examination shall be punished by the revocation of his 

 veterinarian certificate. The owner or keeper of each and every 

 stallion or jack over two years old kept for public service or for sale, 

 exchange or transfer shall between the dates of January first and 

 April first of each year after their first registration make application 

 for the removal of the certificate in the form and manner as above 

 described. [35 G. A., ch. 188, § 1; 34 G. A., ch. 100, § 2.] 



Sec. 2341-h. Disqualification. The presence of any one of the fol- 

 lowing named diseases shall disqualify a stallion or jack for public 

 service and no certificate shall be issued by the secretary of the state 

 board of agriculture: glanders, farcy, maladie du coit, coital exan- 

 thema, urethral gleet, mange, melanosis, blindness, cataract, bone 

 spavin, ringbone and periodic ophthalmia' (moon blindness). Stallions 

 or jacks possessing any of the following named unsoundnesses may 

 receive a certificate but each certificate and every advertisement shall 

 state in large type or writing that the stallion or jack is unsound and 

 shall specify the unsoundness or unsoundnesses which said stallion or 

 jack has: amaurosis, laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling), 

 pulmonary emphysema (heaves, broken wind), bog spavin, sidebone, 

 navicular disease, curb, with curby formation of hock, chorea (St. 

 Vitus's dance), crampiness, shivering, stringhalt. In cases where stal- 

 lions or jacks possess any of the above named unsoundnesses in a 

 very aggravated or serious form, the department of agriculture may 

 upon investigation disqualify such stallion or jack from public service, 

 if they consider him so unsound as to be unfit for breeding purposes. 

 [35 G. A., ch. 188, § 2; 34 G. A., ch. 100, § 3.] 



['"opthalinia" in onroUed bill. — Kditor.] 



Sec. 2341-i. Posting certificate — grade stallion. Any owner or 

 keeper of a registered stallion or jack over two years old offered for 

 public service or for sale, exchange or transfer who represents or holds 

 such animal as registered, shall keep a copy of the state registration 

 and certificate of soundness upon the door or stall of the stable where 

 such animal is usually kept, and where such animals are advertised 

 each and every advertisement shall contain a copy of such certificates 

 or the substance thereof. Wliere certificates of registration have here- 

 tofore been issued by the state board of agriculture an additional cer- 

 tificate of registration shall not be required, but application for cer- 

 tificate of soundness shall be made as hereinbefore provided. Any 

 owner or keeper of a stallion or jack over two years old other than 

 registered offered for |)ul)lic service or for sale, exchange or transfer 

 must secure certificates of soundness from the secretary of tiie state 

 board of agriculture and advertise said stallion or jack by having and 

 posting handbills or posters not less than five by seven inches in size, 

 and said bills or posters must have printed thereon, immediately pre- 



