DEBARRING UNSOUND STALLIONS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1408, 8 April 1912, Page 8

DEBARRING UNSOUND STALLIONS.

AN AUSTRALIAN V7EW. i.

In reference to the certification of stallions, the Chief Inspector of Stock in ~. , .South....Australia, in his annual, report, remarks:—"Althoush it is recognised that .., .JV inot'o-. thorough system is rcquir«l,,.yet -.-' It or ■- benefits arising from the present scheme cannot be lost sight of. .Unfortunately,- the existing system does'ijptTu'O- ■' bibit the 'unsound or defective 'stallidhs, which have been refused a certificate con- . tinui.m; to ,do ; .service,, ,nor does .it reach * large iiiiinljer's-" of sires' (good, bad, and j indifferent), which are never exhibited at j shows—in' l, facf," may' never Ic'iVj lli'eir J owner's farm or station. ■ Tlic. licensing jot stallions would be a certain advance j on the existing regulations, and the good j effect to" (ho. 'horse-breeding industry ! could hardly. be questioned. The., lieces- ) sity for n uniform Licensing and Registration Bill„fcr all the.States in (he Commonwealth is apparent, and in order that I' this can -be successfully introduced,, it ' will be advisable for the chief inspectors of stock and Government veterinary surgeons of. the .States to confer. One "of . results from thepre- ■ -sent-scheme was that owners would'decline to have their, mares served bv nn■cei Mealed horses.- ■ ■ There : is an" -uiidoubted preference for certificated ani- ,: mahybut.■this-is not general. Some own- . ers persist in patronising cheapness, and as rejection, frequently necessitates reduction m fees, the uncertificated liors? con- . ti lines a source of darker to the horse stock of the State.