Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-25
HEALTH Of STOCK
BEST FOR YEARS
DR.. Crewe Says in Annual Report
That There Is Little Con.
tagious Disease

The live stock of North Dakota are
in better health this year than ever
before since the organization of the
state live stock sanitary board. This
declaration is made in the annual re.
port of DR.. w. F. Crewe, executive Of
ticer and veterinarian.
Regarding the report, DR.. Crewe
says:
The report indicates that the condi-
ton of the livestock industry for the
year ending July l, 1916, is the best
from sanitary standpoint regarding
the existence of contagious diseases,
Of any year since the organization of
this department, ten years ago.
The statistics show that the num-
Der Of animals annually destroyed for
CHAMBERS has been reduced from 1859
for the year 1907 to 229 for the year
1866. ns~
The number OF animals destroyed
for dourine has been reduced from
459 in the year 1914 to % in the year
1916. .t .a m .aa,-
The number of cattle admitted by
tuberculin test has increased remark
ably, 1912 being admitted during
the year 1856 compared with 1892
for the year 1914. s. -a.
There is also very marked in.
crease in the number of stockers and
feeding cattle shipped into the state
Seven thousand two and eighty
eight cattle were tuberculin tested,
these cattle remaining in the state
For this year five per cent reacted to
the tuberculin test compared with IA
per cent for the year 1912. Three
thousand one hundred twenty-three of
the cattle tuberculin tested were pure
bred cattle.
The board at this meeting also es.
tablished regulations providing for
the classification of pure bred cattle
herds entitled to official recognition
as being free from tuberculosis.
This regulation gives herds of pure
bred cattle that have been annually
tested under the direction, of the
board official recognition when found
free from tuberculosis, and gives the
owners of cattle herds so classified
special advantages in the markets
over owners of, cattle herds that are
not so recognized. IN
It is also in line with measures
adopted by few of the more progress.
sive states and also recommended by
the United States government. -
This report also indicates that the
live stock exhibit at the state fair for
the year 1916 was much larger and of
superior quality to the exhibits at any
of the previous state fairs. It was
also very noticeable that there was a
large increase in the interest taken in
the live stock exhibits, the superin.
tendents of the different live stock
departments stating that the visitors
going through the barns far exceeded
in number those of any previous fairs.
The report of the director of the
State Serum institute shows that only
about % per cent of the amount of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. distributed for
l9l4-l5 was distributed for the year
l915-l6. indicating that hog cholera
has existed to a less extent during the
past year than for the previous year.
The annual report also includes a
report indicating the services render
ed by the inspectors of the bureau of
animal industry under the direction
of DR.. R. H. Treacy, inspector in
charge, Bismarck, N. D., with special
reference to the cooperation in the
eradication Of dourine.
In fact the report would indicate a
very encouraging condition of the live
stock industry in general and indi-
Gates a very rapid increase in this in.
dus.ry.
The members of the board are: DR..
r. j. Walsh, president; Andrew
Veitch, vice president: W.. l.. Rich.
ards, secretary; J. W. Robinson and
Alfred White. DR.. L. Van Els of the
North Dakota State Agricultural col
lege is the bacteriologist and consult
ing veterinarian.