668 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



if such registration is found to be correct and genuine, he shall issue a 

 certificate under the seal of the Department of Agriculture, which cer- 

 tificate shall set forth the name, sex, age and color of the animal, also 

 the volume and page of the studhook in which said animal is registered. 

 For each enrollment and certificate he shall receive the sum of one dollar, 

 which shall accompany the certificate of registration when forwarded for 

 enrollment. 



Sec. 3. Any owner or keeper of a stallion for public service, who rep- 

 resents or holds such animal as pure bred, shall place a copy of the cer- 

 tificate of the £'tate Board of Agriculture en the door or stall of the stablij 

 where such animal is usually kept. 



Sec. 4. Any owner or keeper of a stallion kept for public service, for 

 which a State certificate has not been issued, must advertise said horse or 

 horses by having printed handbills, or posters, not less than five by seven 

 inches in size, and said bills or posters must have printed thereon imme- 

 diately preceding or above the name of the stallion, the words "grade stal- 

 lion," in type not smaller than one inch in height, said bills or posters 

 to be posted in a conspicuous manner at all places where the stallion or 

 stallions are kept for public service. 



Sec. 5. If the owner of any registered animal shall sell, exchange or 

 transfer the same, and file said certificate, accompanying the same with 

 a fee of fifty cents, with the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 who shall, upon receipt of the original State certificate, properly trans- 

 ferred, and the required fee, issue a new certificate to the then new owner 

 of the animal. And all fees provided by this act shall go into the treas- 

 ury of the Department of Agriculture. 



Sec. 6. Any person who shall fraudulently represent any animal, 

 horse, cattle, sheep or swine, to be pure bred, or any person who shall 

 post or publish, or cause to be posted or published, any false pedigree or 

 certificate, or shall use any stallion for public service, or sell, exchange 

 or transfer any stallion, representing such animal to be pure bred, with- 

 out first having such animal registered, and obtaining the certificate of the 

 State Board of Agriculture as hereinbefore provided, or who shall violate 

 any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and he 

 punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in 

 the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both such fine and imprison- 

 ment. 



Approved March 30, 1907. 



The States of Wisconsin and Minnesota have similar laws. They are 

 more stringent, however, in that they provide that no stallion having any 

 hereditary or transmittible unsoundness, or disease, shall be permitted to 

 be used for public service; cataract, amaurosis, laryngeal, hemiplegia 

 (roaring or whistling), chorea (St. Vitus' dance, crampness, shivering, 

 springhalt), bone spavin, ringbone, sidebone, glanders, farcy, maladie du 

 coit, urethral gleet, mange, melanosis and curb, when accompanied by 

 curby hock. 



