Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-03-09
CA TILE MEN PROTEST.
Branding Feeders Deemed Unneces-
saly and Unwarranted.

A special meeting of the Mineral
Point Commercial Club was held in
the Club rooms on Friday, March 8,
and was quite largely attended.
The meeting was called to order by
the president, who announced that
the special meeting had been called
in the interests of the men in this vi
cinity who are engaged in feeding
beef cattle. He invited the farmers
present to make use of the club
rooms for meeting at any time they
might SO desire.
A. F. Bishop, Jr. spoke on the reg
ulation of the Live Stock Sanitary
Board requiring feeders which AZ =
brought in to the state to be branded
or tested for tuberculosis. Mr.. BlotZ,
John Chamley, Bert Graber, r. G.
White, Charles Cox, r. D. James and
S. C. Nauman spoke on the question.
The speakers were unanimous in
the opinion that it was not necessary
to have such regulation as far as
applied to steers and stays, and the
speakers generally felt that it was a
hardship to have such regulation ap-
piled to a COW stuff where the same
was brought into the state for
bona fide feeding purposes, but rec
ognized that some regulation in con-
nection with COW stuff was necessary
in order to guarantee that such cow
stuff would not be used for other
than feeding purposes. The Secre-
tary reported that the State Veterin-
arian had in a conversation on that
morning stated that he would repeal
the order as far as it applied to steers
pending an investigation of the ques-
ton, and that importers of bulls and
COWS would be given the option of
having them branded or tested.
The following resolution was pre-
sented:
"BE 1T RESOLVED by the under
signed feeders of beef cattle in Iowa
County, Wisconsin, that the regula-
ton adopted by the Live Stock SAM
tary Board of Wisconsin requiring
feeders which are brought into Wis
consin to be branded with the letter
"F' or any other brand will, if en-
forced, very seriously injure
if it does not destroy, the beef cattle
or feeding industry of southwestern
Wisconsin, because the buyers at the
stock yards in Chicago discriminate
against Wisconsin cattle if they are
known to be such, while Wisconsin
beef cattle men must pay the same
price for their feeders as residents or
other states, and because it will be an
unwarranted expense to the feeders
of beef cattle in Wisconsin not only
owing to the cost of branding or test
ing, but because there will be delays
incident to the branding and testing
which will necesitate the keeping OF
the cattle for longer time in the
yards at a high expense to the Wis
consin resident who is buying the
same for feeding purposes, and be-
cause it will thus be impossible for
Wisconsin feeders to compete with
the feeders OF beef cattle from other
states, and
"BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
that the undersigned feeders of beef
cattle are in sympathy with and COM
mend the efforts of the Live Stock
Sanitary Board of Wisconsis to erad-
icate bovine tuberculosis, but feel
that the regulation aforesaid is not
necessary to combat this evil so far
as it applies to the importation of
beef cattle for feeding in southwest
ern Wisconsin, and
"BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
ton to feeders and stays, If castrated
in the yards, is wholly unnecessary
in fighting this disease, and
"BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
that while some regulation may be
necessary in the case of the importa-
ton of cow stuff to guard against it's
sale for breeding purposes, neverthe-
less where cow stuff is imported for
feeding purposes only, it is a great
hardship on the feeder to be subject
to said regulation, and that regula-
tion should be adopted whereby re-
sponsible feeders of cow stuff night
secure a permit on furnishing the
Live Stock Sanitary Board with satis-
factory guarantees by bond or other
wise, authorizing such permit holders
to import cow stuff for feeding pur-
poses only without complying with
said regulation, and
"BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED
that the Live Stock Sanitary Board Of
Wisconsin be petitioned to except
steers and stays from the aforesaid