The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-08-25
LIVE STOCK SANITARY
BOARDS ELECT OFFICERS.

At the closing session of the Interstate
Association of Live Stock Sanitary Boards
at the Monticello Hotel yesterday morn
ing resolution was passed that each
State should submit a list of all the In
spcctors in the respective States TO the
board. and that each State should demand
the tuberculire test for all cattle imported
or exported, by express or other common
carriers for breeding or dairy purposes
Officers were elected as follows:
President w Z. Smith. former secretary
treasurer and chairman of the State Board
of Live Stock Sanitary Commission of ill;-
nois; vice president. W. J. Moore, mem
her % Texas Cattle Commission, Fort
Worth, Tex; secretary and treasurer, Doc
tor s. II. Ward. State Veterinarian, Min
neapoliS, MINI.
Members believe that the tuberculine test
i5 satisfactory method of determining
the presence Of baCilli of tuberculosis in
cattle
These resolutions are submitted to the
Government Bureau of Animal Industry.
which submits them as suggestions for in
ternational legislation to the department
to which ii belongs. The adoption OF this
suggestion IL legislation would require all
cattle transported from one State To an
other to undergo the tubercuine test, and
that certificates from competent authori-
ties accompany all such shipments of cat
tie.
Uniform state sanitary laws were
widely discussed and the subject de-
veloped into Il recommendation for the
freer Interchange of regulations existing
In various States. one with another. that
the authorities in each State in drafting
regulations. exercise precaution so as to
prevent conflict with regulations existing
IL other States.
IT was further recommended that each
State forward a copy of these regulations
TO the secretary of this association. so
that when questions arise which affect
ia nG ha MA fnr
10 the association and the difference be
regulated.
\ suggestion from Doctor D. +. Lucky.
state veterinarian OF Missouri. was re-
&c we'd not to exclude certain counties in
Northern Arkansas which lie outside the
quarantine lire and are in the swampy
region of that country. as 1t was stated
and accepted by the association that this
swarnrv region was not infested with the
cattle tick.
The new quarantine line. which deter
mines. the district infested with the cattle
tick. and which is fixed by legislation ac-
cording to the suggestion of this asso-
citation. is PRACTICAL the same as that of
last year, with the exception Of two
counties in Oklahoma. which were ex-
cluded from the fever district. This line
reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific
oceans and divides the fever-tick infested
region Of the South from the noninfested
rcTior of the North.
Southern cattle are immune from the
infection Of the fever tick and while II
nas been proven that ticks will not go
from one animal 10 another. ii has been
found mat cattle from the noninfested dis
tfict travelling over the same ground
previously Travelled by infected cattle will
pick up the ticks from the ground and
bccom: infected.
ne lick meets the bacilli of fever in
TO the cattle by its bite. and 1T is usually
fatal to ANIMALS rot immune.
After reading several interesting papers
and discussing various subjects, the as
sociation adjourned at noon to meet at
Guthrie. Ok. next year.