8 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the investigations made by the Beard, the expense of the bulletin con- 

 taining the report, as presented to the General Assembly, had also to be 

 met out of the State Fair fund. The statute provides only for the pub- 

 lication of the Iowa Year Book of Agriculture, but leaves it to the State 

 Executive Council to say how many copies shall be printed. For the 

 past three or four years three thousand copies of the Year Book have 

 been printed annually. This year the book was from four to five months 

 late, owing to the great amount of work in the hands of the State 

 Printer and his inability to get it in type earlier. 



I believe that provision should be made to meet the expenses of the 

 department in the investigations which it makes, printing of bulletins, 

 etc., without using the State Fair funds for this purpose. Until the 

 State Fair grounds are fully equipped the surplus State Fair fund is 

 needed for that purpose. 



The department, through its committee on adulteration of foods, com- 

 mercial food stuffs, seeds and other products, has been carrying on 

 some investigations relative to the adulterations of commercial stock 

 foods the past year. Their report will be submitted to the Board at 

 its first meeting, and their findings will be presented to the Thirty- 

 second General Assembly in January. 



A great many complaints are received from parties against the adultera- 

 tion of grass and other seeds, claiming they are mixed with all kinds 

 of seeds from obnoxious weeds. This matter will probably be given at- 

 tention by the Department during the next year. 



THE STALLION SERVICE LAW. 



The stallion service law was enacted by the Thirty-first General As- 

 sembly and made it the duty of the department to carry out its pro- 

 visions. It provides that every owner or keeper of pure bred and reg- 

 istered stallions standing for public service, or kept for sale or ex- 

 change, who represents said stallion or stallions to be pure bred or reg- 

 istered, must cause the same to be registered in some stud book recog- 

 nized by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, and obtain 

 a certificate of registration of such animal. This certificate is then to 

 be forwarded to the secretary of the Iowa State Board of Agriculture, 

 whose duty it is to pass upon the correctness and genuineness of such 

 certificate. If found to be correct the secretary is then to issue a cer- 

 tificate under the seal of the department. This law became effective on 

 the 4th of July, 1906. Hundreds of bogus certificates issued by fake reg- 

 istration associations have been sent in for examination, showing that 

 the people have been greatly imposed upon by unscrupulous parties who 

 make it a practice to issue these fake certificates for no other purpose 

 than to misrepresent and defraud. As the law now stands, any party 

 who owns or keeps a stallion for public service, or cale, and represents 

 him to be a pure bred and registered horse, must show a certificate 

 issued under the seal of the Iowa Department of Agriculture or be sub- 

 jected to the penalty. There is nothing in the provisions of this law 

 which prohibits the standing for public service of a grade or cross bred 



