The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
]. L. Raines of Perry Is Ele-
waited to Presidency.
An ADDRESS BY J. H. MERCER
The Live Stock Sanitary Com
missioner of Kansas
Promises the Complete Eradl-
cation of Hog Cholera.

Members of the Kansas state SANK
- essociation have left Tor thelr
homes after spending two Gays at slle
seventh annual convention hlectloii
III officers concluded the convention
Tho officers elected are;
President l. falheS' ~
Of Bank Of Perry ,,-
First vice president Il o II =,
cs,,-aene,-. vice president of the Peoples
state bank. of Lawrence
second vice presid president miners
Wfckizer. vice president az iiiei7
state Bank Of Quinter. -,
Secondary Miss Anna Marcel t1ai-
aeman. vice president OF the state
bank of Girard.
Treasurer. J. Grover wee press
dent Of the Union State bank OF AT
AsiI District vice presidents-First. S e.
f-oib Topeka. o. A. Clark of Norton
1,iIle. second. Andrew J. Smith OF De
soto. and +. otis Perkins OF Law Law
renee: third, J. n Pitman' OF FItts-
bnrs and W. r. Coffey, of Dexter
fo,fTfh. F W. Gardner. OF Neosno
rails. and A. r. Wallace, OF Whlte
r,it,-- fifth. +. g. Bergen, of summer
fteid and George w. Hanna, of Clay
Center: sixth, Lewis Wilson, OF Nored-
ft.r. and d. II. Stafford, OF Mankato ;
seventh, A. H. Young, OF A 8asaaIosa ,
and II. G Kappenberger, OF Penalosa ;
efe~bth Phil Drum, of Wichita, and j.
II Ruth. of Moundridge.
Address by }. II. Mercer
Preceding the election of officers
INA adoption of resolutions a snort
address was made by J. H. Mercer
state livestock commissioner
J. II. MERGERS Address
..vVithin six years Kansas Will be
entirely free of hog cholera was ms
,,,esss ge to the Bankers, for our SAM
farv department is helping the FARMER
III clean UP his farm and l am glad TO
saw that the farmer appreciates our
efforts and is helping us IN every way
possible in this work
t.,,ched on the value of farm SANTA
ton and the necessity of bankers IN
sisting on certification by the proper
authorities of the health of livestock
before they made a loan to the farmer
on his cattle
-.'This feature is absolutely necessary
because within the past year several
hig cattle men have gone out OF the
cattle business into the dairy business
and TO show you the big increase OF
dairy stock shipment into tins state
there have been within the past yeaI
1890 head from other states All OF
these cattle have been certified to by
the proper authorities for we insisted
on this before we let them come into
the state.
Departments Experience
"Our experience with the foot and
mouth disease taught us to water
other cattle coming into Kansas and
you may be surprised to know that il
cost both state and government $92,-
o51 for cattle killed and the eradica-
ton of the disease.
"Our department." said Commits
sioner Mercer. last year tested fol
tuberculosis 10. O69 head of cattle. OF
this number PA was condemned and
post mortem examinations showed
that 9S per cent of those condemned
showed tuberculosis, so this shows yor
how efficient this test is"
In closing. the commissioner stated
that the old belief that herd once
infected with foot and mouth disease
would never be entirely free from i
was wrong for. careful Treatment
has taught us that the disease can b;
entirely wiped out by the use of in
telligent treatment and we have
proven IL here in Kansas"