The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-12-22
TUBERCULOSIS TO BE FOUGHT.
j. Il. Marks Tells of Movement Which
Will be OF Great Public Good
in Washington.

Ddlry1nen OF dklffld county Will De
the hosts at the next annual meeting
of the Washington Dairy association.
The gathering will probably be in
December next and over 400 practical
dairymen should be brought here at
that time. Mrs. Carmichael of Yak
ina City; j. p. Marks of Ahtanum
and e. A. Cleman of Selah, the local
members who attended the meeting
of 1909, just closed at Monroe, were
successful, after hard work, in urging
the association to select this city.
OF untold general good will be the
result of one movement set on foot
at Monroe when Dr. S. B. Nelson of
Pullman aroused enthusiasm over the
matter of having all dairy herds tu-
berculin tested. The matter of tuber-
culosis in dairy cattle is one which is
receiving more general attention from
experts each year. 1t has been clear
ly dem onstrated that tuberculosis is
communicable in various ways from
dairy stock and that it rapidly trav-
els through herd. Stockmen in vari-
GUS parts of the state are to unite in
districts, to have the herds in their
respective localities tested and the
afflicted animals cleaned out. There
are already three herds of tuberculin
tested dairy cows in this part of Yak
ina county, but they are Isolated
herds. The new move will be to have
all the animals in each district be-
yond suspicion. Mr.. Marks Is a pion-
eer in the war against tuberculosis in
this section and will work hard for
a spread of the doctrines of clean
herds.
Was Practical Convention.
Speaking in general way of the
convention Mr. Marks said that all
the speakers were intensely practical
men and they discussed their subject
in most practical way. Prof. Nit
chell of the California Agricultural
Mr.. Marks admired. He is only 4
boy" said the Ahtanum man, but
he will make his mark" Prof. Nit
chell told of the California conditions.
especially among the renters whom
he classified as the poor, Indifferent,
average and excellent.
Live Stock Commissioner Hodson
of British Columbia told of the ex-
periences of the western Canadian in
compelling the eastern breeder to ship
the kind of stock ne advertised and
which the western man thought he
was buying. I'VE" said Mr. Hodson,
adopted the policy of shipping back
everything that was not up to stand
ard and asking the shippers to pay the
cost of both journeys. Then they be-
gan to send us what we wanted"
Growth of Dairy Business.
Hon. +. 7. JUL, eX-president of the
Oregon Dairy division told of the
growth and development of the dairy
business in the Pacific northwest since
the days when short horn cows were
roped and MIXED to the present and
he followed up this address with a
talk on the 800 COW, which means
the COW which will produce butter
annually of a value of 500. 1t is but
very short time ago since western
breeders said the COW which could
produce that much butter in a year
was an impossibility. In the Marks
heard now a COW has to qualify well
above that figure to entitle her to re-
main and some breeders in Washing
ton have individual animals which
have run up to $500.
Good Words for Monroe
Those people at Monroe" said Mr.
Marks, should be eulogized for they
certainly gave the dairymen an excel
lent time. There was a banquet; they
had rigs to take us to the reforma-
tory grounds, to the poor farm, to
the condensary, to an immense berry
farm and to every other point of in
terest. We were entertained all the
time we were away and hope we will
be able to do as well when the dairy
men come to this citYn