Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-16

Adiilii5 lIoIu IL per cent 10 SOm6lnlnB
under 4. till now 1t is a positive prob
lem to find demonstration material.
Public Sentiment Favors Regulation.
But more valuable than even these
tangible gains is the enlightened pub
lie sentiment on the question that has
been built up. The last legislature gave
serious discussion to regulations long
way more drastic than those which,
with the recommendation of the ex-
pertinent station and the state live
stock sanitary board. finally went thru.
What had been radical three years be-
fore was conservative now. At that, it
is the most advanced Legislation of the
kind in the statutes of any state. It
provided that, after Dec. /, 1910, no
dairy or breeding animal may be sold
without an accompanying clean bill of
health, based on tuberculin test re-
corded with the state live stock sani-
tary board. There are practically two
means of bovine infection-from an
other animal and from the milk of an
other animals the more etiolated human
form of the disease not being trans
Missile to bovine kind. The new law
strikes at the first means by guarding
owners of clean herds from innocently
buying it in with new stock. The
whole state has a general similar pro-
lection against importations from out
side. The experiment stations are now
moving against the second means of
infection by agitating the pasteuriza-
tion of the mixed skim milk returned
by creameries to their patrons. Should
this go legally into force, the state will
n of sel.
working in accord with an educated
public opinion, should amount to an
aut omatic system for eliminating the
disease.
Some instructive Comparisons.
comparisons" as the late Mr.
Shakespeare remarked, ARE odious,"
but they are likewise instructive. Es-
pecially so is that of New York's ex-
perience with the same disease. Years
back, her legislators adopted an adj
mirable law, modelled on that of
Denmark, under which there was indi-
Gated an excellent method of eliminate
ing the disease, based on the voluntary
adoption of the tnberculin test. The
general farm public were, however,
quite unenlightened as to the wisdom
| of the act and did not take to the sest.
A year ago the ommissioner of agri-
culture, under his power to test sus-
pected herds, began a campaign of
compulsion against the disease The
farmers being, quite naturally, unap-
preciative, made rancorous resist
aEce, and ended by denying the neces-
sity for the campaign and the validity
of the test. 1t was only after a legis-
Native fight that the law, modified,
stayed on the books; and there rem aims
| in the state a sentiment against tuber-
culin testing and livestock officials that
will not be overcome in years.
Public opinion is automatically. too
strong a force to be worth while work.
ing against: it is, however, capable Of
conversion from a force of resistance
to force Of furtherance. The Wis
consin bovine tuberculosis campaign is
worth remembering as a fine example
of educational method in accomplishing
this In three years, practically, there
has been gained the popular enactment
Of the most effective body Of regulation
any state can show; but better, there
has been developed an intelligent pop
ular sentiment on the matter, which
even If it is still not universal, is more
than sufficient to keep the state from
backsliding. ollette's Weekly.