The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-09-07
RANGE CATTLE
MUST BE- DIPPED
Federal Authorities Will MOI
Allow Shipment Out
Of the State.
U DAKOTA AFFECTED
Dr.. Ramsey General Inspector es Cattle
in Northwest. Makes a Statement
Regarding Farmers Who Claim
Law Works Hardship.

Huron, S. D., Sept. 2.-"The federal
authorities will sustain the state board
in all its decisions and all cattle in
Beadle and other infected
must be dipped before they can be
shipped out of the confines of the
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, the statement
being made to a company Of farmer
cattle owners and others gathered to
talk the matter over with the govern
ment inspectors. Several government
inspectors, one of the county deputies
and a 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 n 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
or the inspection of cattle in the two
loakotas and Montana, being an ap-
po1ntee Of the federal government and
the government has instituted a QUAR-
rantlne against the three states placed
under the supervision of the Fargo
a as we'll as the states of Wyoming.
Idaho II some of the other states. II
Is Or. RalnSey'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
sliPped. .lf cattle are not infected.
SAID the doctor. they do not neces-
sarlly have to be dipped unless it is The
OF the owner to ship them,
Dut II they are infected with any con-
tag1ous or infectious disease they must
be dipped, ship or no ship; and if they
are to be shipped they must be dipped.
infection or no infection, c~ontagjous
disease or no contagious disease. That
IS the law. I will uphold it and that
Is the long and Short of it. If farmers
cattle are diseased they must be dipped.
anu II farmers want to ship their cattle
out or the state they must be Tipped,
SAID Dr. Ramsey. The government has
9~uaIantlned the whole state, but re-
ports or our work in the state last wear
showed that 80 per cent. of the dis
eased cattle came from the districts
comprising the counties between the
Missouri and Jim rivers, and basine nv
authority on those reports I tool the
liberty OF cutting down the quaran-
l1he ana limiting it only to the eighteen
counties between these two rivers. ana
by DONG this / hoped to be able to
stamp out the disease without sub
Ject1ns the whole state to the rigid
dlpplng law. But now, if the Deopie
are not satisfied with the reg,ilaYiop.
why, we can place the whole state u,l-
der quarantine and compel the dippiig
OF cattle, both east of the Tim and
west or the Missouri, us well as i'm those
counties lying between the two rivers :,
Df. Ramsey was asked what effect The
Judge Whiting injunction would have
ana nc replied that it would have no
erect at III, at least regarding the fed
eral ruieS and regulations. The i,i,I1c-
tlofl OF the court will, of course, oDeTatA
IN this county regarding the uualan-
tlhing and dipping of cattle not in
Iected, and the farmers and cattle
owners cannot be compelled to mum
less their cattle are infected, but when
q cattle owner ships his stock out of me
state ne passes out from unde any
rules OF orders or iniunctions promni-
sated by county, state or court au-
t,lofltles, and comes under. the rules of
the federal government, and then he
must mp or else AXE his cattle back
home. N
The question was raised regarding
me inspection of cattle and the liz
in finding a scab hut 10
torolns 70 l)r. Ramsey seal is very
hard to find during warm weather :
1t disappears almost entirely satti;f~
che horns; but when cold waarh.
er returns the scab breaks out ana is
fnuch worse than ever If the catt1a ~
not been dipped.
LIT. RamSe returned last aVap;r. -
mis- Fargo home.