PART XL 

 Horse Breeding Industry In Iowa 



Law Governing State Enrollment of Stallions Standing in 



Public Service, With List of Certificates Issued 



to May 1st, 1907. 



Prior to the enactment of Chapter 98, Laws of the Thirty-first General 

 Assembly, but few restrictions were placed upon the owner or keeper of 

 stallions kept for public service, consequently not much effort was made 

 by the mare owner to ascertain whether the horse he was going to breed 

 to was pure bred and registered, this being especially true with regard 

 to the draft horse. A very large number of grade or "scrub" stallions 

 were being used, the large part of their patronage being secured by rea- 

 son of the low service fee. Again the owner of the "grade" or "scrub" 

 stallion would have his advertisements so deftly worded that no one but 

 an expert on breeding would ever doubt but what the stallion so adver- 

 tised was anything else but a pure bred horse. 



Since the passage of the stallion service law the farmer and breeder 

 has taken a renewed interest in his horses. While hundreds, and, I 

 might say, thousands, of them still breed their mares to "grade" or 

 "scrub" horses knowingly, others absolutely refuse to breed to a stallion 

 without the owner or keeper can show a state certificate, which is a 

 guarantee that the stallion is registered in one of the recognized stud- 

 books. 



The State Department of Agriculture has received a great many cer- 

 tificates of registration issued by what are commonly known as "fake 

 studbook associations." These associations have been unusually active, 

 within the past few years of high priced horses. The purpose of these 

 associations is to register horses for breeders or dealers who have failed 

 to have the pedigrees accepted by a recognized association. Only one as- 

 sociation so far has been located in Iowa. These fake registry associa- 

 tions issue a very attractive certificate, with seals and ribbons, all of 

 which help to fool the mare owner, who seeks to learn the breeding of 

 the stallion he desires to patronize. 



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