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STALLION REGISTRATION IN KENTUCKY LEXINGTON Ky December 14 One of the nu ¬ merous tilings the Thoroughlred Horse Association has done for the advancement of the thoroughbred horse industry and interest in the United States was to secure the enactment of a law requiring the registration in Kentucky of all stallions jacks and bulls and fixing tlie license to be charged the owners of all such The law is in effect and will apply for the first time to stallions on and after January 1 1The The minimum license to be charged for any stal ¬ lion standing in this state is 10 but any for which a service fee of more than 50 is charged must pay a license tax equal to twenty per cent of the service fee Prior to tlie enactment of this law the tax was a sum equal to one service fee and no registration with the commissioner of agriculture through the county clerk was required The regis ¬ tration fee in each instance is 1 The line for failure to register a stallion jack or bull is from 5 to 500 The minimum license for any jack is 10 and for any bull 1 Tlie fee for the high priced animals is fixed at twenty per cent of the service stallionsIt fee the same as with stallions It is believed that this law will discourage the keeping thekeeping of inferior male animals for service and andthat that it will encourage owners of the higher class classI I animalsI stallions jacks and bulls to stand their animals I publicly and not reserve them for their own use as I asI was the case when the excessive license prevailed
