1016 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



erinarian certificate. The owner and keeper of each and every stallion 

 or jack over two years old kept for public service or for sale, exchange 

 or transfer shall between the dates of January first (1) and April first 

 (1) of each year after their first registration make application for the 

 renewal of the certificate in the form and manner as above described. 



Section 3. The presence of any one of the following named diseases 

 shall disqualify a stallion or jack for public service and no certificate 

 shall be issued by the secretary of the state board of agriculture: Glan- 

 ders, farcy, maladie du coit, coital exanthema, urethral gleet, mange, 

 melanosis, blindness, cataract, bone spavin, bog spavin, periodic opthal- 

 mia, (moon blindness). 



Stallions or jacks possessing any of the following named unsoundnesses 

 may receive a certificate but each certificate and every advertisement 

 shall state in large type or writing that the stallion or jack is unsound 

 and shall specify the unsoundness or unsoundnesses which said stallion 

 or jack has: Amaurosis, larynegeal hemiplegia (roaring or whistling), 

 pulmonary emphysema (heaves, broken wind), ringbone, side bone, navi- 

 cular disease, curb, with curby formation of hock, chorea (St. Vitus' 

 dance, crampiness, shivering, string halt) . 



In cases where stallions or jacks possess any of the above named un- 

 soundnesses in a very aggravated • or serious form, the department of 

 agriculture may upon investigation disqualify such stallion or jack from 

 public service, if they consider him so unsound as to be unfit for breed- 

 ing purposes. 



Section 4. Any owner or keeper of a registered stallion or jack over 

 two years old offered for public service or for sale, exchange or transfer 

 who represents or holds such animal as registered shall keep a copy of the 

 state registration and certificate of unsoundness upon the door or stall of 

 the stable where such animal is usually kept, and where such animals are 

 advertised each and every advertisement shall contain a copy of such 

 certificate or the substance thereof. Where certificates of registration have 

 heretofore been issued by the state board of agriculture an additional 

 certificate of registration shall not be required, but application for cer- 

 tificate of soundness shall be made as hereinbefore provided. Any owner 

 or keeper of a stallion or jack over two years old other than registered 

 offered for public service or for sale, exchange or transfer must secure 

 certificates of soundness from the secretary of the state board of agricul- 

 ture and advertise said stallion or jack by having and posting 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" (or jack) 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 said stallion or jack is kept 

 for public service, sale, exchange or transfer, together with a copy of the 

 certificate of soundness issued by the secretary of the state board of agri- 

 culture, and where such animals are advertised each and every advertise- 

 ment shall contain a copy of the said certificate or the substance thereof 

 and the words "grade stallion" (or jack). 



