The record-union., 1898-12-25

| fectious animal diseases, I should re-
spectfully recommend that an attempt
be made to prevail upon the member:
of the coming Legislature to give your
| honorable board full control of these
matters, with power to employ ex.
perts, establish and maintain quaran'
tine lines, quarantine counties, dis
tricts or farms, as necessity demands
also, powers to control and supervise
| the shipment of livestock from infected
to non-infeoted districts, under condi-
tions necessary to protect the livestock
| interests of the State.
| Our County Government Act should
| be amended so as to permit Boards OF
| Supervisors and health authorities il
| the different counties to take such ac-
! tion under the direction of your board
as may be determined by circumstances
from time to time.
There is another important point
should like to call your attention to al
| this time. The supply Of cattle in
| California is not equal to the demand
consequently we have to rely. upon the
stock of neighboring States to supply
our wants. This will be more especially
| the case for the next four or five years
| Owing to the late dry season, stock
men have sold or lost from disease and
| starvation large numbers of stock. II
will take years for the stock industry
| to regain it's normal condition, and In
| consequence large numbers of stock
| will be imported from neighboring
| States, some of which will undoubted-
| ly come from infected districts, and
| will if some action is not taken. carry
with them and disseminate disease
| which may take years to eradicate
| To prevent any such calamity your
| board should have the power to hold
cattle coming into this State on the
State line until they are submitted tc
such treatment as your board may
| deem necessary to protect the live
stock industry in this State.
| Further, your board should have the
| control of an experimental station
| equipped with complete bacteriolog-
| ical and chemical outfit conducted by
| competent experts This is an abso-
| lutte necessity, or will become SO within
| the next two years, as so many new
diseases are cropping up from time to
| time that your field experts will not
| have the time, nor, perhaps, the nec-
essary qualifications to investigate
| them and determine their cause and
! the proper methods for preventing
| them.
| Then. again. stock to be raised and
| fed upon districts infected with an
| thrax should be vaccinated under your
| supervision, and the vaccine used
should be manufactured by the State
and supplied to the health authorities
gratis. The same also may be said OF
Symptomatic anthrax commonly called
black-leg. Of course, vaccines for these
| diseases can be bought in the East, bu'
/ must confess that personally have
very little faith in vaccineS or toxins
| that are not produced by the State OF
| Federal Government and distributed
| free.
/ Nearly all the States have expert.
mental stations and they have proved
/ to be of inestimable advantage tt
| stockmen and farmers, not only in in
vestigating matters pertaining to dis
ease. but all of them from time to time
promulgate. in the form of pamphlets
information regarding the prevention
of disease and the care of stock. Then
again, in dealing with Texas fever ant
| anthrax wherever possible, a bacteri
| illogical examination should be mad,
Of every outbreak, in order to avoit
confusion. So far I have made ;
| archaeological examination in ever.
outbreak investigated by me, but th'
time is coming when it will be i'm
possible for your field expert to fint
/ the time to make his own bacteri
illogical examinations. s..
Then. again, such an institution