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jack owner is required by law to "post and keep affixed, during 

 the entire breeding season, copies of the license certificate of said 

 stallion or jack in a conspicuous place where said stallion or jack 

 stands for public service." 



All mare owners before breeding to a horse should make sure 

 that the stallion is properly licensed for that breeding season. 

 By doing this he has the word of a competent veterinarian, that 

 from the sire, the colt will inherit no weaknesses which will im- 

 pare its usefulness. 



Why some farmers continue to breed to scrub stallions is a 

 mystery. It must be that such men want scrub colts, that they 

 prefer them to higher class animals. True, there is usually some 

 difference in the service fee. This is seldom more than a few 

 dollars, however, while the difference in the value of the colts 

 from the two classes of horses is seldom less than $25 the day 

 they are dropped and often increases to $75 or more as the colts 

 grow out. 



Advantage to Stallion Owners. 



The stallion law puts the work- of running a horse on a very 

 much more business-like basis, as it is a guarantee against loss 

 of out standing bills to owners of purebred animals. 



It eliminates unsound and unworthy individuals from com- 

 petition with good horses. That in itself, it is plain to see, will 

 in a short time improve the general type of horses throughout 

 the State. This should be sufficient incentive to stallion owners, 

 because a stallion has so much better opportunity to prove his 

 worth when the grade of mares he is mated wHh more nearly 

 approaches his own class. 



Amendments. 



Experience with the law has shown the desirability of cer- 

 tain amendments. These changes would make the law more 

 just to all concerned and easier to carry out, both for the stallion 

 owners and for the officials administering the law. 



Those interested should lend their support at the next session 

 of our Legislature and see that the proposed amendments are 

 incorporated in the law. 



