The Glasgow courier., 1915-12-24
per cent of the value of all crops
grown, and may be regarded as rep
resentative of all crops.
IMMIGRATION FIGURES.

IMMIGRATION FIGURES.
North Dakota, Minnesota, South
Dakota, Illinois and Washington fur
nished the bulk of the new farmers
that emigrated to Montana during the
year. This is shown by the annual
report of DR.. w. J. Butler, state vet
erinarian, giving the number of live
stock importations into the state.
While some Of these importations are
Of stock cattle, by far the great ma
jority represent the animals of real
farmers who have moved TO the Treas
ure state. The total number of such
shipments in 1915 was 2,166, COM
pared with $3.50 in 1914
1mportations by states were as fol-
lows: Alabama, /; Arkansas, 3; Cali
fornia, 5; Canada, 80; Colorado, 10;
District of Columbia, /; Idaho, 7; Illi-
nois, ms; Indiana, 21; Iowa, IS; Kan
sas, 20; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 1;
Michigan, d; Missouri, 80; Minneso-
ia, 3S6; Nebraska, no; New York, 1;
North Carolina, /; North Dakota,
470; Ohio, 8; Oklahoma, 20; Oregon.
48; Pennsylvania, I; South Dakota,
1876; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 8; Utah, 4;
Washington, 164; Wisconsin, IS, and
Wyoming, Sc.
"Even though for number of
months we had a quarantine prohibit
ing the importation Of cattle, sheep
or swine into Montana" says the re-
port, 1--WE have during the past year
imported 1920 horses, 40,O15 cattle,
52.454 sheep and 2S2 hogs.
1.-THE importation of cattle from
eastern stockyards has caused us con-
siderable anxiety, due not only to the
presence of foot and mouth disease in
Illinois, but also to the fact that many
tuberculosis reactors are shipped for
sale by INSCRIPTIONS stockmen to the
stock centers, and also to the fact that
infectious pneumonia and shipping
fever have been very prevalent in the
stockyards during the past season. It
was not considered advisable to quar-
antine all shipments coming into Mon
tana, but for the protection Of our
livestock industry we considered it
necessary to inspect and quarantine
all animals coming from stock eenters.
Livestock sanitary board order No. is
was therefore issued and although
the increased work entailed by this
order has caused the livestock sani-
tary board considerable expense, we
are in position to positively state
it has saved the state of Montana
many thousands Of dollars and has
resulted in a better grade of live
stock being shipped in from stock
yards, although the quality of ami
mails shipped in from eastern stock
centers is not always of a desired
standard, but the quality of livestock
is not question of sanitation, or Leg
islation, but one of education.
"A few years ago all feeders and
range stock shipped into Montana
were shipped from the southwestern
states and arrived in Montana during
the spring months, but owing to the
growth of agriculture in our state we
no longer receive great herds of cat
tie from the southwestern states dur
ing the spring. Our farmers need
their range during the summer to
grow their crops and our market has
changed from the southwestern states
to the river stockyard centers such
as South St. Paul, Sioux City and
Omaha, and the time of shipping in
from the spring months to the fall.
From both material and a sanitary
standpoint this is somewhat unfortu-
nate as the grade of cattle from the
stockyard centers is not equal to that
OF our range cows, and from sani-
tary standpoint we know that disease
is much more liable to follow ship
ments from stockyard centers than
from our open range countries. This
is matter that must receive the Sc
rious consideration of our stockmen
and the livestock sanitary board, but
l consider the proper solution not one
of legislation but one of education"
Indicating the better care Montana
stockmen are taking of their live
stock, the report shows 84,775 cases
of blackleg vaccine were distributed
during the year.
Out of 1851 head of cattle tested
for tuberculosis this year, only 345
reactors were found, a percentage of
.O24.
There was no serious outbreak of
hog cholera in Montana during the
year. The worst cases were found at