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seeking to improve their stock are constantly worried 

 with scrub stallions which belong to some one else, or by 

 two-and three-year-old stallions that were not castrated 

 when they should have been. In some states rigid con- 

 trol of these stallions is obtained by having special agents 

 appointed to castrate them and providing fines for turn- 

 ing loose such animals upon the range. There is some 

 agitation towards passing a law which would prohibit 

 any but pure-bred stallions running loose upon the public 

 domain. It is probable that it will be some time before 

 a law of this kind is put into actual operation, but it is 

 certain that in the near future the range-men will ask for 

 laws doing away with the scrub stallions. 



