244 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



The $450.00 that he makes above the thousand he figures for incidentals, 

 repairs, and a little extra feed for his stock in the form of concentrates. 

 His labor problem for extra help during harvesting and haying is usually 

 solved by exchanging work with his neighbor, so that he is not out any 

 cash, but simply a little labor. 



His pasture also deserves special mention. As I stated at the beginning, 

 it is a bottom flat and starts very early in the spring. Early in the 

 spring it is disked where it appears soddy and is seeded on the barren 

 spots. The entire lot is covered with a light coating of manure and the 

 way it responds is amazing. However, there are yeai's when during the 

 latter part of July it gets a little dry and barren. At this time he feeds 

 a little extra by cutting some rape from his hog lot, which is as a rule 

 quite heavy at this time, and quite frequently gets too coarse and heavy for 

 the pigs to handle. This is done only for a short time until he gets his 

 grain stacked and the new clover comes on. This year he is going to solve 

 the problem by putting up a silo. By this method he will have a supply 

 for the summer and at the same time have better winter feed for his 

 stock in the form of succulence." 



DIVISION OF nOKSE BREEDING. 



The law under which this department has been issuing certificates to 

 pure bred stallions has been unsatisfactory for various reasons, which we 

 do not need to discuss at this time inasmuch as the Thirty-fourth General 

 Assembly saw the need of a better stallion law and enacted a law which 

 we believe will bring about the desired results. This law will go into ef- 

 fect January 1, 1912, and the following are the principal features stated 

 briefly: 



"Each person, firm, company or corporation who offers for public ser- 

 vice, sale, exchange, or transfer any stallion or jack over two years old 

 as registered shall procure a state certificate from the Secretary of the 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



In addition to the state certificate the owner must furnish an aflBdavit 

 of soundness from a graduate veterinarian, or in lieu of this certificate the 

 owner may make an affidavit as to the soundness of the stallion before an 

 ofl5cer authorized to administer an oath. 



The owner of a pure bred or grade stallion or jack will be required to 

 renew the certificate of soundness each year between January 1, and April 

 1st. 



A stallion or jack with any of the following named diseases shall be 

 disqualified for public service: Glanders, farcy, maladie du coit, coital 

 exanthema, uretheral gleet, mange, melanosis, blindness, cataract, bone 

 spavin, bog spavin, periodic opthalmia (moon blindness). 



A stallion or jack possessing any of the following named unsoundnesses 

 may receive a certificate, but each certificate and every advertisement shall 

 state that the stallion or jack is unsound and shall specify the unsound- 

 nesses: 



Amaurosis, laryngeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling), pulmonary 

 emphysema (heaves, broken wind), ringbone, side bone, navicular dis- 

 ease, curb, with curby formation of hock, chorea (St. Vitus' dance, crampi- 

 ness, shivering, string halt). 



