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So many of these fake associations became established, and were do- 

 ing such a lively business, that the Bureau of Animal Industry of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture found it necessary to make a 

 careful investigation of this subject, with the result that only breeding 

 associations having studbooks of known merit received the stamp of 

 approval by the Department. (A list of the recognized studbooks we 

 publish herewith.) 



The assessment report received by the State Auditor to July 1, 1906, 

 gives the total number of stallions in Iowa as 6,079. The new Stallion 

 Service law took effect July 1, 1906. From this date to May 1, 1907, 3,253 

 State certificates had been issued. This goes to show that a little less 

 than 50 per cent of the stallions used in the State are "grades" or 

 "scrubs." While this looks bad. It is about the estimate placed by the 

 Secretary, when the bill was up for discussion in the Senate Agricultural 

 Committee. It is a blot upon the horse-breeding interests of our State, 

 or any other State, that such a condition of affairs should exist, and we 

 hope the stallion law will make it so uncomfortable for the owner or 

 keeper of a "grade" stallion that he will quit the business. However, the 

 blame does not rest entirely with the owner of the "scrub" stallion, for 

 there are many mare owners who would not think of using anything but 

 a pure bred and registered bull, boar or ram on his farm, but will breed 

 his good draft mares to a "scrub" stallion, because he can do so cheaply. 



Iowa leads in the nuitnber of pure bred and registered horses. In Wis- 

 consin, where the law requires certificates to be issued to both pure bred 

 and "grades," the number issued shows that in that State they are using 

 about 60 per cent "grades" to 40 per cent pure breds. 



The law enacted by the Thirty-first General Assembly was amended 

 by the Thirty-second General Assembly, and now reads as follows: 



LAWS OF IOWA. 



A BILL for an act to repeal Chapter Ninety-eight (98), Acts of the 

 Thirty-first General Assembly, and to enact a substitute therefor, rela- 

 tive to the registration and publication of pedigrees. 



Be it Enacted hy the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



Section 1. That Chapter Ninety-eight (98) of the Acts of the Thirty- 

 first General Assembly be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the fol- 

 lowing enacted in lieu thereof: 



Sec. 2. Any owner or keeper of any stallion, kept for public service, 

 or any owner or keeper of any stallion kept for sale, exchange or transfer, 

 who represents such animal to be pure bred, shall cause the same to be 

 registered in some studbook recognized by the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Washington, D. C, for the registration of pedigrees, and obtain 

 a certificate of registration of such animal. He shall then forward the 

 same to the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of 

 Iowa, whose duty it shall be to examine and pass upon the correctness 

 or genuineness of such certificate filed for enrollment. In making such 

 examination, said Secretary shall use as his standard the studbooks rec- 

 ognized by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, and shall 

 accept as pure bred any animal registered In any such studbooks. And 



