NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XV 953 
Sec. 2341 -a. Registration of pedigi-ee — fee. 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 stud 
book recognized by the Department of Agriculture 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 stud books recognized by the 
Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, and shall accept as 
pure bred any animal registered in any such stud books. And if such 
registration is found to be correct and genuine, he shall issue a certifi- 
cate under the seal of the department of agriculture, which certificate 
shall set forth the name, sex, age and color of the animal, also the 
volume and page of the stud book 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 for- 
warded for enrollment. 
Sec. 2.341-b. Posting certificate of registration. Any owner or 
keeper of a stallion for public service, who represents or holds such 
animal as pure bred, shall place a copy of the certificate of the state 
board of a,griculture on the door or stall of the stable where such 
animal is usually kept. 
Sec. 2341-c. Grade stallion. 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 ha.ving printed hand 
bills, or posters, not less than five by seven inches in size, and said 
bills or posters must have printed thereon immediately preceding or 
above the name of the stallion, the words "grade stallion," 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. 234 1-d. Transfer of certificate — fee. When the owner of any 
registered stallion sha.ll sell, exchange or transfer same, he shall 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 state certificate properly tra.nsferred and upon payment of the 
required fee, issue a new certificate to the then owner of the animal. 
All fees provided by this act shall go into the treasury of the depart- 
ment of agriculture.* 
Sec. 234 1-e. Publishing false pedigrees — penalty. Any person who 
shall fra.udulently 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 stal- 
lion, representing such animal to be pure bred, without first having 
*As re-enacted by the Thirty-third General Assembly. 
