Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-08-11
COLORADO COWMEN
KICK ON DIPPING
REGULATION
Say the Cattle are Kept Too
Busy to Get Fat Keeping Up
With the Bureau Rules.
Denver News.)

animal industry. Stockmen say that
a recent quarantine order of the bu-
reau is costing them from SO to $40
per head in the decreased value of
their cattle, nd that II is forcing ab-
solutely healthy cattle to be dipped on
the charge that they have been ex-
posed, and that when the cattle come
TO market they are put In pens that
have contained infected cattle. thus
exposing them. This forces the own
ers to dip them before leaving the
wards.
The trouble Is over a quarantine or
der issued last April against NANCY
cattle, but which has only recently
been enforced. Under this order all
of Colorado east OF the mountains
is under an absolute quarantine and
the government claims that all the
cattle in that district are either in
fected with mango or exposed to the
infection and they cannot move out
of the state unless dipped. They per-
init the cattle to come to Denver or
go to eastern stock yards In cars tag
ged TO show they are quarantine cat
tie, and at the market they are put in
Isolated quarantine pens. They are
not permitted to leave the yards until
they are dipped. The effect of this is
to very greatly depreciate the value of
the animals. for If they are in quar-
antine buyers will not pay as much
for them, and II they are bought in
lust after being dipped they look so
bad that buyers again discriminate.
Keeps Animal Busy.
The infection of mango or "scab-
les" as II is technically called, is
caused by q parasite which burrows
- a.. alYsa 81 Tho NINA anplGinU an
itching sensation. The animal puts
I'm much time scratching, n while
the disease Is not fatal except in rare
Instances, IL not cared for the animal
is so busy scratching that ii does not
find time to Craze sufficient to keep
il in good condition and in a bad win
ter IL is an easy victim. Plenty OF
green grass seems to rid the animal of
the Infection. while with dry feed IT
becomes more prevalent.
Several years g the Infection be-
came very bad over the west and both
the state and national governments
undertook TO eradicate IL. Cattlemen
were required to dip their cattle, but
IL Is claimed that some refused to
obey his law and thus the disease
has continued TO some extent. The
last order OF the government is the
most stringent ever issued and results
In a quarantine as severe as though
the state was infected with a deadly
Virulent disease.
The government has been spending
several millions a year combating the
disease. but as cattlemen nave always
had more or less OF Il and have found
but little difficulty IN taking care of
II, even when it gets bad, the bureau
has not had very enthusiastic assist
ance from the stockmen. The latter
generally regard the remedy far
worse than the disease
Protest From Colorado.
We think the quarantine regula-
tiop of the bureau uncalled for and
Unnecessary said Secretary Fred T.
Johnson. of the Colorado Cattle Grow
ers' association. yesterday. I'VE shall
probably take some action to try n
have the quarantine abandoned or at
least force the government to let clean
and unexposed cattle alone. The
state board of stock inspection has
been laboring for several years to get
this infection cleaned up, and as a
of fact we have reason to be-
hat over rs per CEN of the
cattle in eastern Colorado are entirely
free from the infection. Under this
silly and uncalled for regulation the
government Is actually forcing clean
lhiilt 10 Dt thDOHtu anu Nlnntus IL I
persisted in. IL will cause the cattle
OF eastern Colorado a loss of at
least a million dollars on their ship
this fall. This Is not the first
that the bureau has issued reg
that they were forced to
abandon. l remember two or three
years < we were forced to send a
to Washington to appeal
direct to the president to stop the in
reference with the cattle movement.
IF there was any real necessity for
-uch strenuous regulations, we would
object. but the disease Is of a ma
that "a easily be controlled. and
no cattleman regards 1t seriously. We
now have a state law that will enable
The board 10 cause the arrest of any
stockman who fails to properly clean
his cattle of the parasite. Most stock
men need no law. as they realize the
advantage Of dipping their animals.
much to get rid OF the lice as the
'cab. In fact. most cattlemen know
hat lice are far worse than mango
and just as infectious. but the gov
pays no attention to that
.rouble.
When the quarantine regulations
we're issued last April, they were re-
simply as another bluff and
40 one paid much attention. Now
hat the government is trying to en- |
'Orce them we shall certainly pro-
est. In the first place. the divisional
by the government H. not
air. when the state began fighting
he Infection. We found that the coun- |
In the mountains and west was
lot infected. so we adopted the moun
as the line between the Infected /
non-infected territory, not for the
,urpose Of quarantine. but for the
,Bfpose Of inspection. We know for
fact hat there are counties east OF
hat line that are absolutely free from
mango and have never had 10. Yet
hese counties are now under quaran-
Inc and the cattle are handled as IN
eeted cattle and must stand the de-
rease in value the same as though
hey were actually NANCY. II is RI
and IN line with the other
ules and regulations sent out from
Washington for the paternai lnfllctiOn
the western people"
Local officers Of the bureau Of ami
lal Industry claim. b. o. understood.
hat the state board Of stock inspec-
ION has failed % properly enforce
tate laws FOR the suppression Of the
and that n Infection has
increasing and the government
a. been practically forced 10 take
radical stem To- prevent D spread
the Infection. This g denied by
state officials who claim that