The La Jara chronicle., 1908-01-03
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
Directed by the st at Agricultural College
Veterinary.

Glover, head of the department of
veterinary science at the Colorado |
Agricultural college, and together
these patient workers for Colo
radios live stock interests dis
cussed the states good fortune in
freedom from the numerous dis
eases that infest less favored To-
calities and become a menace to !
the very life of the people.
This is not the first conference
these guardians of bovine veal
and human welfare have had. DIR. |
Lamb makes frequent visits to the
agricultural college in the inter
ests of the young men of the veter-
mary science department to whom
he lectures upon topics of immedi-
ate practical interest and benefit
AS president of the Interstate
Association of Live Stock Boards,
DIR. Lamb vouchsafed the following
interesting facts relating to the
important work of this organiza-
ton:
This association, as its name
indicates, is an association of vet
erinarians and laymen engaged in
the control and eradication of dis
eases of live stock. They hold an
nual meetings, the last one having
been held in Richmond, Va, at
which eighteen states were repre-
sented, together with Il delegation
from the U. S. bureau of animal
industry, including DIR. A. ID. Mel
vim, chief of the bureau. One OBJ
| lect of the association is to enforce
uniform regulations between the
vsrious states regarding the inter
state movement of live stock that
may be capable of conveying dis
cases; also for mutual benefit and
advantage in arranging for uniform
control OF disease in the various
states. 1t was largely through the
efforts of this board that the work
of tick regulation among southern
cattle was undertaken by the gov
ernment working in conjunction
with the southern states where the
so-called Texas fever tick has re-
suited in the annual loss of many
millions of dollars to the stock
raisers of the south.
The presence of the tick in the
southern states has precluded the
importation of thoroughbred cattle
from the north, which has greatly
hampered the breeders from rails
ing the standard of their cattle.
With the scientific knowledge we
possess, it is possible thoroughly
to renovate any given farm of the
tick; and working under the as
sumption that if farm can be rem
ovated, county can be renovated;
and if a county, an entire state.
Following this line of work during
the past two years, eight or nine
counties have been placed above
the dead line in Virginia; about an
equal number in North Carolina,
and several counties in Arkansas
and in the Indian Territory. To
these counties this means an an
nual saving of large amount of
money, and it has been demon
strated that it is question of
only few years when it is prob
able that the dreaded Texas fever
tick will become a thing of the
past il: the entire southern country.
This is only one phase of the
work of the board. At the last
meeting resolutions were adopted,
and the members pledged, to en-
deavor to secure state Legislation
in their respective states looking
toward testing mich COWS and the
eradication of tuberculosis among
the dairy herds. Already the good
efforts in that direction are notice.
able in the interest Legislative bod
les are taking along these lines.
1.-THE next meeting of the associ-
alton will be held during the
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