The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-02-15
Stallion License Law
Twenty States Protect Breeders From
Fraud and Misrepresentation by
Owners and Dealers

In the past 10 years 90 states have
enacted laws regulating the public
service of stations and jacks. The |
principal objects OF these laws are
to improve the quality of horses and
mules raised and to protect breeders
against misrepresentation and fraud
on the part of INSCRIPTIONS stallion
owners and dealers.
In order to accomplish these re.
suits these laws require the owners
CT all stations and jacks intended
for public service to secure a license
from the stallion registration board
or commission. Licenses are issued
for purebreds, grades, crossbreds and
mongrels or scrubs, according to the
provisions of the law in the particu
lar State.
Those stations or Jacks offered by
their owners as purebred must be
recorded in the studbook published
by a society recognized by the state
as authentic and reliable. The certi-
fcate of registration and pedigree is
sued by one OF these societies must
be presented to the board with an
application for license and an atlidav-
1t certifying to the condition OF
soundness.
| In their general provisions all OF
these laws are similar, but in certain
details vary in greater or less de.
gree. In some States certain diseas-
es or unsoundness disqualify stall
lion or jack for public service, while
in others the stallion or jack Is per-
mitted to stand. but any unsoundncss
must be mentioned on the license GER
tifcate as well as on all posters, cir
culars, etc. used by the owner for
advertising purposes.
The States having laws of this
character are California, Colorado,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Ne
braska, New Jersey, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, oregon, Pennsylvania
South Dakota. Utah, Washington and
Wisconsin. The last named State
was the first to pass such law and
Ok ahoma the latest one. Under the
law in the latter state stallion own
ers are not compelled to secure a
State license, but 1t Is safe to say
that the holder Of a State license
} has a great advantage over the one
who does not.
It Is a deplorable fact that hun
dreds of farmers and mare owners
have patronized the inferior stallion
with the cheap service fee. These
men seem to have failed to appreci
ate that in paying higher fee FOL
the service Of the sound purebrec
sire the service fee will be more
than offset by the higher price receiv
cd wen the resulting colt is sold
I Nor have they appeared to consider
the fact that Il costs as much to raise
grade or mongrel as 1t does pure
bred.
A lack of consideration in the mat
tiers OF soundness, breeding and reg
istration have been the cause fol
much Of the patronage secured by
: the inferior stallion. However, these
laws have now made 1t possible To-
every farmer and mare owner II
these States to know exactly what
stallion or jack Is before breeding
their mares. They have also benefit
ted the owners Of sound purebre'
sires because they discourage thu
use Of the unsound, grade, and mon
grel stallion.
The results thus far show grad
ual increase in the percentage o
purebred stations in service and
decrease in the percentage of grade
s and mongrels. At the present TIM
e there are approximately $4,000 stal
a lions in service In these States, o
which more than so per cent are II
q censed as purebred. This Indicate
a that breeders are becoming more par
J, ticular in the matters of soundnes
and breeding, and that the owner
a OF stations who at first were in som
s instances, inclined to oppose are nov
s aiding in the enforcement of tn
\ provisions of the laws.
e The question may be asked as I
e what Is becoming OF the unsound
I grade and mongrel stations. Tn
! reports from the various states sho'
that as the patronage of inferior an
! mails decreases they are either cal
}, trated or shipped out, undoubtedly II
!; to those states where there Is II
q law to compel them to stand unde
J. their true condition Of soundness an
IS breeding, thus continuing their d.
= structive work to the horse industr