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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. 
