The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-09-08
Federal Authorities Will Mo-
Allow Shipment Out
of the State.
SOUTH DAKOTA AFFECTED
Or. Ramsey General inspector Of Cattle
in Northwest, Makes Statement
Regarding Farmers Who Claim
Law Works Hardship.

authorities will sustain the state board
in all its decisions and all cattle in
Beadle and other infected counties
must be dipped before they can be
state" The foregoing statement was
made yesterday by DR.. Ramsey OF
Fargo, N. D., the authoritative head
of the federal department and the ex
ecutor OF the laws promulgated by the
United States government through the
secretary Of agriculture, thh statement
being made to a company Of farmers,
cattle owners and others gathered to
talk the matter over with the govern
ment inspectors. Several government
inspectors, one of the county deputies
and score or more Of cattle owners, as
well as representatives of the press,
were present at the meeting and the
matter of dipping of cattle was gone
over thoroughly and the law and Its
workings explained by the gentleman
from Fargo. the doctor concluding his
remarks with the statement that all
cattle, whether infected with the scab-
bies or not must be dipped before being
shipped out of the state.
DR.. Ramsey has general supervision
Of the inspection of cattle in the two
Dakotas and Montana, being an ap-l.
pointee of the federal government, and
the government has instituted q quar-
rantine against the three states placed
H..
man, as well as the states Of Wyoming,
Idaho and some Of the other states. It
Is DR.. Ramsey's business to see that the
orders of the government are carried
out, and complying with one OF these
orders he makes the statement that all
cattle must be dipped if they are to be-
shipped If cattle are not infected, =
said the doctor. they do not neces-
ssarily have to be dipped unless 1t is the
Intention Of the owner to ship them,
but if they are infected with any con-
tagious or infectious disease they must
be dipped, ship or no ship; and if they
are to be shipped they must be dipped,
Injection or no Infection, contagious
disease or no contagious disease. That
is the law. l will uphold 1t and that
is the long and short of it. If farmers
cattle are diseased they must be dipped.
and # farmers want to ship their cattle
out Of the state they must be dipped,
said DR.. Ramsey. The government has
.quarantined the whole state, but re-
ports OF our work in the state last year
showed that 80 per cent. OF the dis
eased cattle came from the districts
comprising the counties between the
Missouri and Jim rivers, and basing my
authority on those reports 1 took the
+ liberty of cutting down the quaran-
tine and limiting 1t only to the eighteen
counties between these two rivers, and
by doing this I hoped to be able to
stamp out the disease without sub
jecting the whole state to the rigid
dipping law. But now, IL the people
are not satisfied with the regulation.
why, we can place the whole state un-
der quarantine and compel the dipping
OF cattle, both east Of the Jim and
west Of the Missouri, as well as in those
counties lying between the two rivers.',
DR.. Ramsey was asked what effect the
Judge Whiting injunction would have,
ana he renltod that II wnl116 EpAf5n ~