The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1909-04-02

Owners of pure-bred stations have
been pleased to comply with the Wis
consin law as regards posters, having
nothing to hide and everything to gain
by publicity; others have been lax in
this respect or have pleaded ignorance
as an excuse, when taken to task for
their negligence. This condition of
affairs will be apt to continue to a
greater or less degree if, as is now the
case in many districts, owners Of
mares aid and abet the owners of stall
lions in their evasion of the law and
also are Indifferent as to the breeding
| of the stations they patronize, pro-
vided the service fee is kept sufficient
ly low. A cheap service fee is the
least consideration in breeding horses.
The cheap fee means a cheap selling
offspring. 1t is the proverbial penny
| wise, pound foolish" policy and it is
high time that our farmers learn that
1t is to their best interest to make
sure that the stallion they patrcnize is
pure-bred, sound, fine Individual and
properly prepotent and in tina. case
the service fee will be of little me-
ment and will be more than paid back
when the time comes to sell the colt.
II a groceryman must sell oleomar-
arine he should at least ticket 1t as
such and not advertise it as pure.
creamery butter. In exactly the same
way it is but right that the man who
offers counterfeit, grade, or scrub
stallion for public service should adj
vertise its true breeding and this is
done when, according to law, the IL
cense> certificate is printed and posted
up in conspicuous places wherever the
horse is used.
Relative to the stallion situation the
following facts will be of interest to
horse breeders:
The secretary of the stallion regis.
tration board of Minnesota, Prof. An
drew Boss, says: "The law requiring
the enrolment and licensing of stall.
ions was passed on April Is, 1907. The
board was organized in May, and dur.
Ing the first year of its existence has
licensed $3.50 horses. OF these LILO,
or 37.5 per cent, are pure-bred; 1,849,
or 62.5 per cent, are grades; 90 have
been refused license on account O. I'M
soundnesses which are recorded as
transmissible and would be likely to
AFFECT the get of these stations. 1t is
estimated that Is to 80 stallion owners
have been advised by local veterin-
arians that their horses could not pass
examination and application. has not
been sent in for them. m all proba-
bility 125 unsound horses have been
kept from service in the state this
year. The Percheron breed of horses
leads all others both in grades and
pure.breds, with standardized trot.
ters second and Belgians third in the
list.
I'm some sections of the state there
is slight opposition to the law, due
largely to local prejudice, or misrepre.
sentation on the part of some preiu.
diced stallion owner, or other inter.
ested party. AS whole, the la-7 is
meeting with the approval of the horse
breeders of the state. This is evi.
denced both by the large number OF
horses registered, and by the core
spondence necessary in securing Ii.
censes. With only few exceptions
the law Is being obcyei strictly, some
counties reporting only one or two
horses still unlicensed. Some mfsun
derstanding still exists regarding Sec
lions and of the law relative tc
posters. The law requires a poste,
containing copy of the license certi
ficate on the door of every stable al
which the horse is stood for publ
service. In many places these par
ticular sections of the law are no
being observed simply because tn,
owners of stations do not know tina
1t is necessary. Where Informed tina
this is required, there is littlo diff
Guilty in securing the posting of tn: