, 1906-06-14
HAWkEYE STATE HAS SPLENDID
LEGISLATION FOR BENE-
FIT OF SToCkMEN.
Pedigrees of Breeding stock To Go To
State official Who Has Facilities
at Hand for Determining Genuine
ness of Pedierees and Certificate
of Animals B%reedings.

Ill lllt Sbll'bt VI eb NbiNuiS VI NHS oHf
vcrsity Of Wyoming:
The Iowa Legislature has enacted a
law which is well worth copying by this
and other states. Several carloads of
stations and many carloads OF bulls are
imported annually into Wyoming. With
animals thus brought into the state are
shown pedigrees and certificates concern
ing the accuracy or genuineness of which
the sellers word is the buyers only
guarantee, inasmuch as the buyer has
not the stud or herd books of the breed
lent certificate may be presented with
the animal, showing a pedigree which
can be traced in the stud or herd book,
but which in reality belongs to another
animal. The Iowa law sends all such
pedigrecs and certificates to a state Of
fetal who has the facilities at hand for
determining their correctness or incor-
r~ectness, and if found correct he issues
a state certificate, which serves as a
guarantee to the purchaser. The law
also forbids the issuing of false GER
tihcates, and in this way prevents the
issuing of false certificates by so-called
pedigree mills" to grade animals. In
view of the fact hat the number of i'm
ported breeding sires purporting to be
pure-bred is much larger than the num-
Der of pure-bred sires produced in the
state and offered for sale, such a law is
especially needful in this state. 1t will be
noticed that the law does not affect
animals bought in other states by a
breeder in this state and used in his
own herd. 1t applies only to animals
the state. And since the vast majority
of Wyoming stockmen are buyers and
not sellers, the advantages of the law
are apparent. Something should GER
tainly be done to protect the companies
of ranchmen and farmers who are pay
ing long prices for stations on the
strength of pedigrees, the genuineness
of which they have no means of testing.
A copy of the Iowa law follows:
Section 2. Any owner or keeper of
any stallion or bull kept for public ser
vice, or any owner or keeper of my
stallion kept for sale, exchange or trans
fer, who represents such animal to be
pure bred, thorough bred, standard bred,
or registered, shall cause the same to be
registered in some stud book or herd
book recognized by the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, d. c., for
the registration OF pedigrees and obtain
a certificate of registration of such ami
NAL. He shall then forward the same
to the Secretary Of the State Board of
Agriculture of the State of Iowa, whose
duty it shall be to examine and pass
upon the correctness and genuineness of
such certificate filed for enrolment. In
making such examination, said Secretary
shall use as his standard the stud books
or herd books recognized by the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington, D..
C., and shall accept as pure bred, thor
ough bred, standard bred, or registered
any animal registered in any of such
stud books or herd books. And if such
registration is found to be correct and
genuine he shall issue a certificate under
the seal of the Department of Agricul-
ture, which certificate shall set forth the
name, sex, age, and color of the animal,
also the volume and page of the stud
book or herd book in which such animal
is registered. For each enrolment and
certificate he shall receive the sum of
one dollar, which shall accompany the
certificate of registration when forward
ed for enrolment.
Section 3. Any owner or keeper of a
stallion or bull for public service who
represents or holds such animal out as
pure bred, thorough bred, standard bred,
or registered, shall place a copy of the
certificate of the State Board of Agricul-
ture IN the door or stall of the stable
where such animal is usually kept, and
shall furnish to any person who shall
request it a copy of such certificate.
Section 4. If the owner of any reg
lstered animal shall sell, exchange, or
transfer same, and the purchaser desires
it, he shall transfer in writing the GER
tihcate issued by the State Board of
Agriculture to the purchaser of such
animal, and upon filing such certificate
so assigned, and accompanying the same
with a fee of fifty cents, the Secretary
of the State Board of Agriculture shall
issue a new certificate to the then owner
of the animal, and all fees provided for
by this act shall go into the Treasury of
the Department of Agriculture.
Section 5. Any person who shall
fraudulently represent any animal, horse,
cattle, sheep, or swine to be pure bred,
thorough bred, standard bred, or reg
istered, or any person who shall post or
publish or cause to be posted or pub
hshed any false pedigree or certificate, or
shall use any stallion or bull for public
service, or sell, exchange, or transfer any
stallion, representing such animal to be
pure bred, thorough bred, standard bred,
or registered, without first having such
animal registered and obtaining the GER
tihcate of the State Board of Agricul-
ture as hereinbefore provided, or who