TWELFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI. 24 f. 



Before a stallion or jack can be imported into the state a certificate 

 will be required from a state or federal veterinarian to the effect that 

 said animal is free from the diseases specified in the disqualifying section 

 of this act. 



The provision for annual renewal of certificate is a very important 

 addition to our law as it will enable this department to publish a complete 

 list each year of stallions and jacks offered for public service within our 

 state. Heretofore the department has been issuing certificates but have 

 had no means of knowing the number of horses removed from the state 

 or those that died. Under these conditions the list of stallions offered for 

 service as published in the Iowa Year Book of Agriculture contained the 

 names of a great number that slaould have been dropped from the list. 



The provision providing for an affidavit of soundness is of great im- 

 portance as it will rid our state of a number of stallions affected with un- 

 soundnesses that make them undesirable sires. It will also prevent owners 

 of stallions of this type in neighboring states from shipping them into 

 Iowa as they have been doing the past few years, or ever since our neigh- 

 bors passed laws with similar requirements. 



During the past year — from December 1, 1910 to November 30, 1911 

 inclusive, 705 state certificates and 398 transfer certificates have been 

 issued. Previous to November 1, 1910, 6,721 certificates and 1,191 transfer 

 certicates had been issued, making a total of 7,426 state certificates and 

 1,589 certificates of transfer issued to date. 



This, however, does not mean that there are that many pure bred stal- 

 lions in the state for, as I have stated before, a great many have been 

 removed or have died. The list as published in the 1911 Year Book will 

 show a complete list enrolled under the new law up to May 1, 1911, and 

 will be of much Ijenefit to stallion owners, and this department, in en- 

 forcing the law. 



PRINTIXG. 



In Mr. Simpson's reports he has repeatedly recommended that some 

 provision be made whereby this department would be given authority to 

 issue bulletins containing information that would be of interest and of 

 value to the public. 



I wish to again make this recommendation and to cite a few specific 

 Instances where these bulletins would be of value and a saving to the state. 

 Under the present arrangement the only medium through which we can 

 disseminate information collected by this department is through the Iowa 

 Year Book of Agriculture. Copy for this is prepared along in Februarj' 

 and March, but for the past two years it has been impossible to send it to 

 the printer until about the 15th of June as the law requires the publica- 

 tion of the crop and other farm statistics in the Year Book. However, it 

 does not require the county auditors to file their reports of these statistics 

 with this department until June 1st. If it were possible for the depart- 

 ment to issue a bulletin in an edition of 15,000 or 20,000, containing these 

 statistics immediately after they were compiled they would be of much 

 more value to the public and it would enable us to have the Year Book 

 ready for distribution six months earlier than under the present arrange- 

 ment. 



