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ber of pure bred horses of a variety of breeds, can also lay claim to a 

 premium on worthless grade stallions which are used to pollute the horse 

 blood of the state. Slowly but surely the state officials who know the 

 value of good blood are devising means of ridding the state of its worth- 

 less stallions. These officials realize that we have long since passed even 

 the good grade stallion period. There are plenty of well bred, pure bred 

 horses in the country of all varieties and there is no sort of excuse for 

 the natural resources of a state being wasted on poor horses. Premiums, 

 to which the State contributes, for grade stock should be abolished. A 

 prerequisite for entry at any show using state money should be a pedi- 

 gree denoting purity of blood from a breeding point of view. We do not 

 care to know which horse is the best of a lot of grades. We do want to 

 know which is the highest type of horse of a recognized breed. The State 

 can afford to encourage good breeding through subsidies, but it should 

 discourage the use of grade stallions by all means within its proper power. 



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, relative to 

 the registration and publication of pedigrees. 

 Be It Enacted by 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 first General Assembly be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the 

 following 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 stud book recognized by the Department of Agri- 

 culture 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 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 stud book in which said animal is registered. 

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

 dollar, which shall accompanj' the certificate of registration when for- 

 warded 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 

 certificate of the State Board of Agriculture on the door or stall of the 

 stable 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 hand bills, or posters, not less than five by 



