1014 IOWA DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



Requiring an affidavit from owner or from a graduate veter- 

 inarian regarding the soundness of a stallion offered for sale or 

 public service. 



Requiring the owner of a grade stallion to take out a certificate 

 of soundness and to publish the substance of said certificate along 

 with all advertising matter. 



Requiring a certificate from state or federal veterinarian that 

 animal is free from specified hereditary or contagious diseases be- 

 fore said animal can be imported into the state. 



The following is a copy of the law regulating the sale, transfer 

 and use for public service stallions and jacks. Following this is a 

 table showing the number of certificates and transfers issued in 

 each county, by breeds. This is followed by a directory of owners 

 of pure bred stallions, by counties, to whom certificates were issued 

 during the period from May 1, 1910, to May 1, 1911. 



