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MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF HORSES 



the best breeding, and a sire of good colts, is unfit for 

 service, due to the presence of a slight unsoundness, as 

 defined by law, while a nearby stallion, being free from 

 any of the unsoundnesses mentioned by law, possessing 

 notable defects, as well as of unknown breeding and the 

 sire of many undesirable colts, is worthy of public patron- 

 age. Nevertheless, in many states stallions and jacks are 

 disqualified from public service for certain unsoundnesses 



FIG. 186.— BELGIAN STALLION "FRANK BRISER" 



irrespective of the breeding and reputation as breeders. 



While the unsoundnesses that disqualify a stallion or 

 Jack from public service vary somewhat in the different 

 states, yet many of them are similar to the Wisconsin law, 

 which is as follows : 



Diseases that disqualify a stallion or jack from public 

 service : 



"Cataract; amaurosis (glass eye) ; periodic ophthalmia 

 (moon blindness). 



