Arizona republican., 1915-10-24
Precautions Urged
 Against Epidemic

~ 7ColCtl' I'tI4dIIlS dCtiOl oI 1OuSIGS
 and the Department of Agricultur,
 on this important question that tn,
 various states should be urged tt establish quarantines against the en- try of any animal product, virus ol serums from foreign countries where
 the foot t-and- mouth and other in fectious diseases prevail This seems
 to be step in the right direction
 Therefore. this matter is presented
 to our Committee on Sanitary Boards
 for their views and recommendations
 Will you kindly advise?
 DWIGHT E. HEARD,
 President T. w. TOMLISON, Secretary.
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 Walden, Colo, Oct g.
 Mr Y. w. Tomlinson, Secretary.
 American National Live Sstock As sociation, Denver, Colorado DEAR SIR:
 I wish to call your attention to the fact that our federal government aI- lows the importation of animal pro- ducts that are polluted with the foot and-mouth plague, and when our stock gets the disease our federal in- spectors will not permit us to cut l ObL bilC W Gl1 dIluIldlS ana market their beef; neither will they let us disinfect their hides and market them, not even the soap grease. for fear of spreading the disease
 South Americans can disinfect their hides and send the meat to our ta- ble. What do you think of the meat when the hides have to be disinfected to go to tannery? Are foreign in spectors more to be trusted than our own south American inspector who would not let suspected cattle pass would soon lose his job. He was put there to market these cattle with an inspectors stamp. and if this government would slice off some of this imported meat and feed it to the hogs, they would know for sure where we got this plague If we cannot safely market our own pro- ducts from infected districts, how can we distribute animal products from countries where the disease is com mon?
 Stockmen protested before this for eign meat was dumped on us. and think this meat has cost us a dollar a pound in doctor bills
 England takes the best of South allow V plague to come in here for te scabbv 1 end of south American beef? It | has been sold over the same block to the consumer as cur own meat. and | created no competition to lower prices | 10 the consumer that I could notice. 1 It was sold in Denver and small towns in Nebraska in May, 1915.
 T. is foot-and- mouth disc SC 
 it's mark on over 100000 head of live stock and now costs her s2O, ,000 900 annually. If scientifically governed Germany can't cope with it. what will happen if t should hit the western ranges. with coyotes to carry t free of charge? This country would be polluted from east to west as Argen- ina is. United States has four head If stock to Germanys one At that rate our loss would be $50, ,0OO 
 It seems to me that congress should lave found safe way to market and protect our own products, and have saved millions of dollars that we have destroyed in quick lime in infected erritory, before we accent animal 'roducts from disease infected foreign countries.
 Bulletin 666 of the Department of 'gilculture states that the plague can e carried long distances on any ma erial or bN persons: it is in the food and milk; that it is common n Argentina: that it has been known ! 0 live in barns year; but it does ot say how long it will live in a ar that has contained meat from an lIected territory. l think that farm rS Wife at Niles, Michigan, bought | hunk of Argentina beef. or a sack potatoes. apples or fruit that had cen transported in car that had foreign meat, and she gave ne offal to the hogs, and that is 'hcre we got the disease, for it is the lost direct road for this plague to Onle from South America. If if lne any other way, they could have 'aced 1t long ago. It is the opinion [ a great many stockmen that these trs that haul South American meat roducts spread the disease by carry lg other food products and waste olnS direct to the hogs, as in nearly | cases hogs have got it first
 states quarantine against states. nd federal authorities claim that our ate regulations are not in line with | deral regulations so as to enable lem to stamp out the plague. Our ate will not accept stock from east
 the Mississippi River although ey give federal and state inspection. his plague has slipped past so many spectors that inspection is not rec snized in dealing with it, unless it foreign. Something must be done the governors of states would put a n on importing animal products om infected countries, that would ep it out until congress could act. le federal government ought to 4an this plague up and bar out anil al products from countries that do t believe in paying their doctor is As Congress passed laws dump thls disease on us, I think the ieral government should pay for clean-up, not half, but all; for colorado was hit as Illinois is, it n 1I nh