The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-10-28
QUARANTINE AGAINST
INFECTED CATTLE
WOULD BAR SOUTHERN CATTLE
FROM STATE-Ao1icULTURAL
BOARD MUST DECIDE.

Guthrie. Okla. oct. 27.-Oklahoma's
quarantine against infected cattle
was brought before the state Board OF
Agriculture today in a petition from
Usage county. filed two weeks agJ,
asking that what was the Usage req
..,4ion De entirely excluded from
the importation OF such stock. After
hearing arguments the board took The
matter under adyiscmcnG
President Conners said that he fav.
orcd the proposition, while =. W
White OF Mel Loud also member o.
the board, favored placing the line at
Rcd river and along the Texas Pau.
handle, which would par Southern ca,
tlr from any section Of Oklahoma
John Leahy attorney for Oklaho-
ma Farmers and Stock Growers Pro.
tectiyc association, presented rcsolu-
tion asking that The county begin
cleaning all of Usage County lynn
west of the Santa Fee railroad, abou,
onctilth OF the total area Remainder
of the county was to be- left open a,
heretofore, thus giving the indian an
opportunity, he said, to get a rcvcnle
from his land Pasturing prices range
from SOC TO 7jc per acre. This posi-
tiou was supported by = T. Shinu y.
PaWhuska, attorney for the Usage
National Council. which is the full.
bloods Government organization. who
presented resolution from the cOuu.
ell asking that Texas cattle be- per.
mittcd to enter during 1910. urdcr eV-
isting rules and regulations p' the
board
Jonn Farmer, stating that he repre-.
scented the farmer and the small cattl,..
man. asked the board To adopt line
that would restrict the entire county,
comprising 2,200 square miles. lie said
the southern cattlcmen had brought
damage to Usage county. The da,
had, arrived he said. when the south
crn cattlemen must say adiru to Usage
county. and he said If the petitioners
were denied what they asked for, they
had another plan upon which they
could rely
Commissioner Barlow Of the county
OF Usage board said the commission.
ors had adopted resolution To clean
up" Big Iill Township, embracing
about 733 square miles. taking in Il
large portion Of the county on the
west and including the tract favored
by the National Council and the Stock
Growers Protective Association
Major sam Hunt, who has large
pasture in Okmulgcc and Mcintosh
counties. and embracing the Hickory
Grove stomp grounds recently mad
prominent by the alleged Snake Indian
uprising told the board that section
was mountainous and not suitable 30
farming, which was also true, he said.
of much of the Choctaw nation.
Directing attention to the statement
placed on Red river Major Hunt stat.
I'D that condition applicable to one
section OF the state would not be- TO
another and while regulation might
be advisable for a prairie country it
would be ruinous TO a rough area The
people Ia the section whcrr he ranch
ed. being between the Canadian ana
the North Fork. were, he said. salts.
fled and contentcd. Fifty times a.
many cattle. he told the board. had
been killed by dipping as had died of
fever in the Choctaw country.
W. q. Woody Of Tulsa county said
that ms section OF the state was sat.
isficd and did not want 10 BE- disturbed
by new regulations.