Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-20
|ST0CkNEN REFUSE APPROVAL
OF STATE TAX COMMISSION
Resolution Urged by Mitchell Killed in Commit
tee After Near Fight on Last Day of
Annual Convention in Butte
The report Of nominating committee
was unanimously adopted
Urges Paid Secretary

The report of nominating committee
was unanimously adopted.
Urges Paid Secretary
President Burke said the office was
an honor when the stockmen back it
up. but It is not an honor with an
empty treasury and fcrgetfulness upon
, the part of the members. He informed
the association that what it needed
was az high elias paid secretary and in
tlmated that such a man would now
! be procured as there is sufficient
money IN the treasury to pay one.
| The membership committee made its
report of new members enrolled since
the opening of the convention. total
Of 81 members having been added to
| the roll
At the opening of the forenoon ses-
sion DR.. W. j. Butler. state yeterin
:'rian. gave an address upon the sub
ject THE Livestock Sanitary Board" in
which he reviewed the accomplishments
Of that state organization with which
his work is identified. He impressed
upon the association the benefit which
has been accomplished by the board in
, its labors and showed that while the
tests of livestock in 1911 had showed
that over 10 per cent Of the cattle
in the state were afflicted with tuber-
culosis that in 1921 out Of over $4,000
cattle tested only 81 per cent were
found to be tubercular. He brought
out the fact that in sanitary work
among livestock, Montana leads the
nation.
Explains Eradication Work
r. A. Piper Of Denver. Of the Z. S.
biological survey. delivered an address
upon Government work in eradication
OF predatory animals and impressed
upon the association the character of
work being carried on by the biologi-
cal survey and the important results
accomplished in Kidding the stock
ranges OF wolves and coyotes. He
showed that in western states cooper
alton with the survey is being provided
through legislative appropriations and
the state cooperation is the smallest
feature of the aid given. the greatest
degree of assistance coming from
counties. from livestock associations
and game organizations.
He told of the increase in the num-
Der of coyotes in the country and said
that while in past years they We're re-
stricted to certain west territory they
are now spreading out and have COW
cred the coast states and are becoming
numerous as far east as Michigan and
Indiana. He told of the development
by the bureau laboratory of a poison
which had been singularly successful in
killing Of wolves and coyotes and from
which no danger existed except to dogs
He impressed upon the association the
benefits of trained men and improved
methods in eradication of predatory
animals and said the bureau is anxious
to bring this work into Montana
Would Utilize Range Horses
The attention of the association to
plan for utilizing the scrubby range
horse for consumption in Europe as
meat, was brought out through the
reading by Or. Butler Of letter from
DIR. Chapel of Rochester, who has
been experimenting since early in the
war period in the slaughtering and pre-
pairing of horse meat for export to
France. The writer brought out that
as the result Of three years work and
large money expenditure an economic