Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-28
PLAN TO ELL TUBERCULOSIS
Sale Of Cattle Subject to Inspection
Would Help Do 1t.
STATE FAIR ENTRY LISTS FULL
Management IL Confronted by DiGi-
cuIties-Leonard Haley Has In
huential Friends in East to
Appeal for Him,
STATE FAIR ENTRY LISTS FULL
From a staff Corre.pondent.N

CFrom a Staff Correspondent)
DIES MONIES, July T.-Special)-If 100
Of the biggest cattle breeders of Iowa, the
farm papers of Iowa, the state Agricultural
college and the State Board of Agriculture
would all agree to a program of selling
cattle orly when subject to post norton
examination tuberculosis in cattle in Iowa
could be stamped out in a reasonably short
time.
Such a campaign would have to be fol-
lowed rigidly with tuberculin tests when
ever a post mortem examination revealed
that some COW from a herd had the disease.
1t would require that to prevent further
Importation of tuberculosis from other states
that cattle bought in other states be tested
before being brought iL This would soon
exterminate the diseaBe and would be the
biggest and most important factor In exter-
minating the disease in the human race Of
Iowa.
Those qualified to know believe that the
farmers Of Iowa are every year losing
great sums of money because OF tuber-
culosis in cattle. The loss is furthermore
on the biggest and best breeders who have
no tuberculosis in their cattle.
The government is now making examin.
atoms at all the biggest packing plants
and is stopping the sale of much meat that
has been taken from cattle afflicted with
tuberculosis. The loss of the value of the
meat falls on the packer-only that it don't
fall on him. In order to meet the loss he
charges more for the meat thai he sells
and pays less for the live stock that he
buys, so that the farmer who sells fat
steers or old cows or any kind Of beef to
the packer doesn't get as much money as
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post norton inspection. That is IL his beef
is free from tuberculosis he doesn't get
as much. II his beef is afflicted with tuber.
culosis he gets paid more, for II sold sub
Ject to post norton examination he would
get nothing IL found afflicted with tuber-
culosis.
Chicago Firms object.
The thing that is said to be preventing
the program of selling subject to the post
norton examination is said by leading
cattle men to be the live stock commission
firms in Chicago and other live stock cen
ters. The packers would welcome 1t, but
the commission men say 1t would revolu-
tionize their methods Of doing business, an
assertion that no one denies. and would
| require them to do a lot OF bookkeepiDg
| with considerable OF delays In gettinE
stock through and paid for and off their
hands.
The advantage to the farmer and breeder
of selling subject to post mortem exam
ination Is the fact that beef free from
tuberculosis would be paid a higher price
than under the present arrangement. Fur
thermore, through the post norton eN-
animation the tuberculosis cattle can be
traced to their origin. The fact that some
cattle afflicted with tuberculosis come
from a certain farm is pretty good evil
dence that other cattle on the farm have
7 1t. By making a rigid test at once of
the remainder OF the cattle on a farm and
then killing off all those with tuberculosis
great Roadway can be made against the
disease.
tuberculosis Is transmitted TO the hui
mans from cattle mostly from the milk
and not from the meat, for the meat when
thoroughly cooked is free from live germs.
People have a natural hesitation about eat
ing meat that is known to come from a
cow afflicted with tuberculosis, however,
and for that reason the packing companies
do not like to have the subject OF tubercu-
losis in cattle agitated a great deal. The
testing of the dairy herds is the matter
of first Importance.
There will not be any Introduction of
the IDEA OF SelllnB only Wnen SUBJECT 10
post mortem examination unless the lead
ing agricultural interests unite on the
proposition. II the leaders would unite
on It 1t would force the commission men
handling the Iowa cattle to sell the ami
mails in that way.
Appeal in Wells Case.
An appeal to the supreme court has
been taken in the case OF the probating
OF the will of the late George Wells in
Grundy county. In the settling OF the
estate w. w. Morrow as state treasurer
entered as intervenor to collect the COL
lateral inheritance tax and in the trial
Of the case in the district court the state
won. The estate is a very large one and
the collateral inheritance tax therefore
amounts to considerable.
Make More Doctors.
The State Board of Medical Examiners
: has announced the work of the examina-