PART XIV 
Horse Breeding Industry in Iowa 
List of State Certificates Issued to May 1, 1909 
(For copy of laws goveren state enrollment of Stallions see 
Part XV) 
The Iowa law requiring the owner or keeper of all pure bred stallions 
standing for public service, or kept for sale or exchange, to take out a 
state certificate was enacted by the Thirty-first General Assembly and 
took effect July 4, 1906. By the provisions of this law the secretary of 
agriculture is authorized to issue certificates only for such stallions as 
have been registered in one of the stud book or registry associations 
having the approval of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. It further 
provides that the owner or keeper of all other stallions kept for public 
service, sale or exchange, must advertise such stallion or stallions as 
grades. 
While it may seem to some that this law^ imposes an unjust tax on the 
pure bred horse, it has done a w^onderful amount of good in ridding the 
state of a large number of worthless grade and scrub stallions. The law 
is lame in some respects: First, there should be some provision com- 
pelling owners to report to the secretary of agriculture the death or re- 
moval from the state of any stallion, that the county list w^ould show 
horses in actual service; second, section 2341-c of the law should be so 
amended that all advertisements of w^hatsoever nature, whether bills, 
cards or newspaper advertisements, for stallions not having state certifi- 
cate, should contain in plain, bold letters the words "grade stallion." 
From July 4, 1906, to May 1, 1909, fifty-three hundred and twenty-nine 
certificates and seven hundred and twenty-two transfers have been issued. 
The rank by breeds and percentage of total is as follows: First, Per- 
cheron, 42; second, American trotter, 14.5; third, Belgian, 12.5; fourth. 
Shire, 11; fifth, French draft, 9; sixth, Clydesdale, 5.5. The balance of 
the certificates cover ten different breeds, viz.: German coach. Hackney, 
French coach, Morgan, Oldenburg coach, Shetland ponies, saddle horses, 
thoroughbreds, Suffolk and Cleveland Bay. 
It is the duty of the county attorney in each county within the state 
to prosecute any of the violations of this law when evidence of any such 
violation is laid before him. 
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