The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-01-26
EXPLAINS NEEDS
OF REEOERS
WRITER IN STOCKMEN'S PAPER
TELLS OF ADVANCEMENT
OF STATE IN LIVESTOCK.

OF STATE IN LIVESTOCK.
Pierre, Jan. 26-Taking up the
problems that are facing the live
stock men of the state and the man
ner in which they may be solved by
| legislative action, DR.. P. K. Johnson
has prepared an article to be printed
In the next issue of the Northwest
Hereford Journal. The article as it
will appear is as follows:
| The livestock breeders do not
feel that the livestock industry of
South Dakota is properly protected
| and are therefore introducing a bill
before the present session of the leg
islature creating a livestock board
| composed Of stockmen with power
| to employ the necessary veterinar-
ians to properly eradicate the pres
ent diseases within the state as well
| as to be protected against further
infection.
THE bill is modelled after the
! livestock sanitary laws of number
of states.
The stockmen feel that the board
| should consist of stockmen, as they
will be in more direct touch with
the situation
The state OF South Dakota may
feel proud of her advancement in
the number of pure-bred animals in
the state. For the same number of
men engaged in breeding livestock,
this state has made more advance
ment than any other state in the
union in the number of pure bred
herds.
when South Dakota raised only
such cattle as were sold on the mar
ket, the sanitary laws of this state
received less attention from the
stockmen than is the case today when
the breeders of pure-bred animals
must look to other states to buy the
surplus of their animals. This is
why it becomes a matter of the
greatest Importance to the stockmen
of this state, that the livestock sani-
tary laws be of such nature that
they will be approved by other
states.
"Any disease that is present
among the livestock of this state is
a matter of importance to every
stockman. If cattle are placed on the
market they will be sold for slaugh-
ter or as feeders. When large
number of shipments are held up
on the market on account OF cattle
being affected or exposed to scabies,
it will arouse suspicion among the
buyers. The cattle that are affected
must be sold for immediate slaugh-
ter at loss of from one to two dol
lars per hundredweight. The cattle
in these cases are bought by the
packer. The men that are on the
of buyin any cattle that may be sold
as feeders, when they consider that
these cattle may be the means of in
fecting their own livestock with di-
sease. In this case the shipper from
this state is Disseminated against
on the market and it means finan-
cial loss.
''The cattle sold on the market
will be easily disposed of if same are
looked on as profitable feeders. If
cattle are diseased or even come
from a state that is looked on as sus-
picious they will not have that ready
| demand. This condition will apply
to pure-bred animals although the
| loss will possibly be much greater
| per animal.
During the past year the state of
South Dakota paid from five to six
times the amount paid by North Da-
kota for eradicating tuberculosis
from herds of the same number.
From these indications it means that
South Dakota is badly infected with
tuberculosis and that prompt and
| vigorous action is necessary if we
are to stop the spread of this di-
sease, not only among the cattle and
hogs but also from injecting the hu-
man family.
The disease may be spread to peo-
smaller cities receive their milk
supply from cattle that have not been
tested in the majority of cases.
"In the number of accredited
herds, South Dakota stands far be.
low the majority of states, being in
34th place according to a report
made by the bureau of animal indus.
try under the date of June 80. 1920
Minnesota is first, North Dakota
fifth, and Montana nineteenth. South
Dakota was very slow in falling in
line with his advanced movement, il
eradicating tuberculosis.