Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-03-25
URGES 7. B. TEST
TOR RUSK COUNTY
County Agent Sees Value That
Will Result if This Move
is Made

Rusk county has completed its area
test for r. b. What better adyertis
ing would Rusll county want? What
would clean slate mean for our coun-
ty? What are we going TO do about ii!
| Can we afford to pass up the OppOr-
| tunity and LET the surrounding cOun-
| It's beat us TO it?
.'Itarron county has completed its
area test was sounded from coast to
coast and from Canada to the Gulf.
To the first county in the United
States to be pronounced free of tuber-
culOsis means much. but Rusk county
need not lag far behind. Consider
what il would mean to put 'Rusk
county is free from I. b." before the
eyes of the country. Our county has
already been we'll advertised but that
is not sutticient-we must continue to
advertise otherwise people will forget
lis.
What is The economic Importance of
Kidding our county OF tuberculosis
What would that mean in dollars and
cents? The price of Barron county
cows has advanced on the average
Of at least $500 per head and ! would
not doubt bit that the average adj
vance would amount to $40. all because
Of being free of tuberculosis. How
many animals are there in the county
which are giving half pals of milk
instead Of full ones because Of tuber-
cnloSis? What are the losses because
Of deaths from tuberculosis i'll herds
III wager this amounts to Il few thou
sand each year. What about the loss
in hogs due to tuberculosis carried in
from cattle?
Forgetting money for few minutes
what would tuberculin free cattle mean
20 the health and welfare of ourselves
and our children? How many Of us
have tuberculosis? How much OF this
is tuberculosis contracted from our cat
tie? Twenty-Five per cent of the tuber-
culOSiS in our people is caused from
tuberculosis in cattle through the use
Of milk products. Can we afford to let
this condition continue? We ought to
see that our cattle are free of tubercu-
l0SiS and the public ought to demand
that our cattle products are free OF
tuberculosis. Some day state law
will force this condition upon us. But
we needn't worry about the latter. for
RuSk county will soon be tested.
\ petition signed by $40 of the cat
tie owners of RuSk county means that
Rusk county will be tested for tuber-
culOSiS at the states expense. am
leaving this matter to YOU fellows
YOU must act. You must put this
through.
What compensation is made for cat
tie condemned because of tuberculosis!
The state pays the farmer the average
between the appraised value and the
block value. | wouldn't be surprised
but that the county might vote to pay
the difference to the farmers. The ag'
ricultural committee OF the county
board is in favor Of such Il move.
I am sending you a petition. which
I want you to put before the voters OF
your town at the spring election. | am
sending you a petition to each town
chairman and up-tO-date dairyman IN
each town and to each creamery,
cheese factory. and bank. This will
be a tuberculosis drive. If we don't
get $40 Of the farmers now. we VIII
need to press the matter further.
Let's push this to the limit. Get one
or two boosters to help you. Let's put
this across Let's go.
Yours for Il L. Il. free county,
LEO +. SCHOEPF.