American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-10-28
REFUSES TO PERMIT
IMPORTATION OF SERUM
State Veterinarian COmpels Use Of
Boise Product, Considered
Inferior.

State Veterinarian Bodle has refused
to allow the Canyon County Farm
bureau to import hog cholera serum
into the state. This fact became known
when he last week definitely turned
down a petition sent In by the bureau
directors asking permission to con-
tinue procuring serum for their use
from an Iowa firm. The effect Of
Bodies ruling Is to oblige all Idaho
hog growers to use the serum put Oh
the market by a firm at Boise.
DR.. Bodle bases his refusal on the
ground that there is danger in i'm
porting serum because of the prevai-
ence of foot and mouth disease In
many eastern states. This fact the
local farmers deny. They quote from
the last government Weekly News
Letter" by way of showing that foot
and mouth disease has all but been
stamped out in the United States.
The text of DR.. Bodies letter fol-
lows:
T. NJ. Nichol, secretary Canyon
County Farm bureau, Caldwell, Ida.
Dear sir-I am In receipt of your pc
tition signed by the directors Of the
| Canyon County Farm bureau, asking
permission to ship serum manufac-
tured by an eastern concern into this
state, and after giving the matter con
siderable thought and realizing tn,
danger Of introducing the foot ant
mouth disease, which now prevails e
an alarming extent In certain eastern
states, into Idaho. / do not think I,
wise to issue permits for this serum
at the present time.
Yours respectfully,
II. G. BODLE,
State Veterinarian.
BY way of refusing the veterinari-
ans assertion that foot and mouth
disease prevails to an alarming ex.
tent In the United States the bureau
officials cite the following article
IN the department of agriculture's
Weekly News Letter" of October 90;
with the exception Of modified
guarantees in one or two small areas
all the federal restrictions on the
movement of livestock which were
imposed on account OF the outbreak
OF foot and mouth disease in 1911
have now been removed. On the
other hand. the c%ontagion has reap,
peared in Illinois and Massachusetts
Infected herds we're discovered In
northern Illinois In August and parts
of the state have been In the CLOSED
area since that time. In Massachus
setts the disease did not reappear un
I'll recently, one herd in Worchestel
county being infected. At the presen'
time October 14) this Is the onIy
county guaranteed in that state. l.
II closed area.
an northern Illinois the August
outbreak has resulted In the Squaran-
timing OF all that part of the state
which lies north OF the northern
boundaries OF the counties of Ca,
houn, Jersey. Macoupin. Montgomer,
Fayette. Effingham, Jasper and Craw-
ford. The Union Stock Yards III
Chicago are maintained as a restricted
area. handling livestock for imuedi
ate slaughter only.
elsewhere the Guaranteed are,
has been reduced to portions Of Steu-
ben county. N. Y, and Hudson county,
N. ]. which are classed as modifie,
area. An order recently signed D,
the secretary Of agriculture, ana nov
effective. has raised the %quarantIn
entirely from the states of Indiana,
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Last spring there was much COM
plant about the Boise serum, tho
claim being made that 1t was inferior
and ineffective. The prohibition of the
state veterinarian will not prevail
against those districts In which gov
eminent men are In charge.