The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-08-03
COW ORDINANCE
GIVEN BUMPS
FINLEY MEETING
Farmers Make Strenuous Objec-
tions to Compulsory Test
ing of Herds
WOIJLDRUINL LOCAL CREAMERY
Finley Dairymen Want City to Hold
of Until After the Next Ses-
sion of the Legislature

Kennewick's new cow testing ordi-
nance was made to bump the bumps
mercilessly at a meeting in the Fin
lev Grange hall last Friday evening.
The grangers had arranged the meet
inc and invited the business men down
and incidentally dressed them down.
The visitors were given to under
stand that the valley farmers had new
er loved them very much because of
numerous little things that have hap
pened in the past. Past grievances,
however, were laid aside and the cow
testing ordinance was made the spec
ial order Of business.
]. R. Ayers, JOS. Gerards, Roy E..
Cox and others spoke for the farmers.
They claimed that because of the pro-
vision prohibiting the sale of cream
Or butter from untested herds, the new
ordnance struck a body blow to the
dairy industry and it's enforcement
would put the local creamery out of
business.
While contending that all dairy
cows should be given the tuberculin
test, they considered compulsory test
ing extremely inopportune at the pres
snt time, because Of the fact that the
state appropriation for partly reim-
buring the farmers for slaughtered
cows had been exhausted and the state
had discontinued it's free application
d the test. They maintained that it
vss unfair that the farmers be COM
PEELED to pay one dollar head for
testing and run the risk Of losing some
mluable animals when within a few
months another appropriation will
probably be made to allow the state
to continue the same plan that has
been followed since the last session of
the legislature.
The Finley Grange, the speakers
said, had gone on record in favor of
state law making the test compul-
sory but the effect of the ordinance
would be to discriminate against the
local dairymen in favor Of those of
other districts. In. short they served
formal notice on the business men that
rather than comply with the ordinance
they would ship their cream to At
talia, Spokane, Tacoma or some other
outside creamery.
City Attorney F. r. Jeffrey, DR.. F.
n. Crosby and others spoke for the
city council and business men and as
sured the farmers that there was no
disposition on the part of any member
d the council or any business man to
cripple the dairy industry or to i'm
pose unreasonable burdens upon the
farmers. The ordinance was pre-
pared before the state appropriation
was exhausted and was drafted at the
suggestion of County Agriculturalist
Lampson and State Veterinarian DON
snue' The object sought was not only
70 protect the public health but to pro-
sect the dairyman, who is willing to
naVe his cows tested against the
spread OF tuberculosis, from the herd
q the dairyman who refused to have
ms cows tested.
before the evening was over nearly
very possible phase Of the question
lac oeen touched upon in the discus
won even to the percentage of human
T. .aDefculosis which might be traced to
.OVlne origin and the percentage of
.uoercular cows in the dairy herds Of
the state.
=, without getting anywhere in partic-
=; f with the cow question the discus
~ nun drlfted to other topics. E. w.
~, .,l.noath, chairman of the Commercial
~ So good roads committee, spoke in
Gu c.nal1 OF the newly organized Benton
- Cuasy Good Roads association. He
ely outlined the purposes of the
a.. saaizatlon and urged upon the farm
h.s sne advisability of every taxpayer
becoming member.
~. a. ). Goss, master of the Grange,
nl.; presided over the meeting, exl
:. eu that it had been his intention
ton! r. present the principal features Of
tbo mp organization but because Of
s,s. is'eness Of the hour he merely
to 80 -. .nat :, the Grange is attempting
~ set :, TINS question before the voters
VIC county at the November cleo