The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-02-08
some LAWS THAT
IOWA NEEDS
The Law on Shipment of Stock Into
Iowa is Very SIack-ln Fact,
There Isn't Any.
LAWS SHOULD BE ENACTED
Registered Stock Alone Is Protected
Or. 6aughman, Of Fl. Dodge,
Tells of Stockmen's Needs.

Tells Of Stockmen's Needs.
Having recently learned from some
of the men interested in stock rails
ing that this was the only state in
the middle west that did not protect
it's live stock with proper quarantine
laws, we asked DR.. Baughman, the
we'll known veterinary of Fort Dodge,
to write us an article telling of our
needs and the way to remedy the
same. Mr.. Baughman responded with
the following splendid letter show
ing in what helpless condition the
farmers of Iowa are in. 1t is need
less to say that every one should use
their utmost influence to bring Iowa
abreast of the times in these matters.
Editors Journal: There is no law
whatever to prevent any one from
shipping in stock from other states,
except for cattle that are registered,
and very few of the registered cat
tie are shipped in at any time. A
very large amount of work that the
state veterinary department is called
upon to do is due directly or Indirect
ly to horses, cattle and sheep being
shipped into this state without any in
spection on our border line. 1t makes
Iowa dumping ground for the sur
rounding states. There is no doubt
large number of COWS that do not
pass the tuberculin test in other
states, are shipped or driven across
the line into Iowa. Almost every case
of outbreak of CHAMBERS we have, can
be traced to some horse or horses that
have been brought from the western
states; so it is with mango Cor Texas
Itch, which can be traced to some
western stock.
Other states have passed laws re-
quiring stations to be inspected, and
when a stallion is found to have
hereditary disease or blemish, he
is not allowed to be placed upon the
stand for service. 1t can be readily
seen where these rejected stations
go, they are without doubt, dumped
into Iowa to still further degenerate
our stock of horses by reproducing
these hereditary defects and blemishes
such as spavins, curbs, crooked legs,
side bones, moon blindness and numer-
out other ailments that we OCCASION
ally get by being ever SO careful to
breed to the very best of stations that
are free from blemishes.
Senator Ames, of Tama, has a bill
that he purposes to put before the
legislature this winter to regulate and
to license stations, requiring them to
pass veterinary inspection. If such a
bill should become law and if it is
not made too drastic, it would be a
Godsend to the horse industry of
Iowa, and every farmer and stock man
should see that their representatives
will thoroughly investigate this par
ticular measure. 1t seems strange
that so great state as Iowa, which
has the largest stock raising indus
try in the union, should be behind al
most every other state in passing laws
to protect it's best industry. There is
hardly another state west of the Miss
issippi river that does not require us
to have our stock inspected, and a
great number of them require US to
have our horses Mellein tested and
our cattle tuberculi tested before we
are allowed to load them into cars for
their destination. Why should we not,
at least, require the same of them?
The best law that Iowa has ever
made in this line was made at the
33rd general assembly. This was the
passage of bill which established a
hog cholera serum station under the
able management of DR.. p. o. Kato,
our present state veterinary. Eight
thousand dollars was appropriated for
this purpose; this amount seems small
compared with $4S,O0OOO that Illinois
appropriated at the same time and for
the same purpose. But for all the
small amount of money to work with
great deal of good was done. A
large amount of serum was made
and many hog raisers took advantage
of procuring the serum and vaccinat-
ed their hogs, which has largely re-
duced the mortality of this dreaded
disease, and no doubt was great
factor in holding hog cholera in check,
and preventing it's rapid spread in the
past year.
The $S,OOO.OO was almost entirely
exhausted at about the time some of
the serum was ready to be put upon
the market, and at that time cholera
began to show up at different parts
of the state and a demand for it was
created. Not having more money to
work with, the serum was put out at
a SOmawhat larger nrico than was oy.