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Show Improving Horses by Law. The education of the average farmer farm-er a3 to the importance of good breed ing in the production of horses makes slow progress. The majority and this Is not overstating the fact are not yet prepared to pay a decent price for stallion service, preferring to use scrubs because they are cheap. Some of the states have passed stallion stal-lion laws containing some excellent features. Wisconsin has a license la1? which prevents the prevalence and distribution of grade stallions in the state. ; Minnesota has a law framed along the lines of the Wisconsin measure. Pennsylvania and Utah have adopted similar laws and other states have restrictive re-strictive measures under consideration. considera-tion. The effect of these laws is to make the owner of each nonregistered stal- 1 lion declare his horse a "grade." On hand bills these are posted, so that no one may be deceived as to his pedigree. |