REPORT OF SECRETARY. 33 



have originated in the non-infested portion of the quarantined township 

 or county. It often happens that such an inspection requires his attention 

 exactly at a time when he should be rounding up some bunch of infested 

 cattle or on guard on the State line. It is also important to notice that 

 where there are only three or four infested farms in a township that, if 

 the entire township is quarantined by the Board, restrictions are placed 

 on the movement of the healthy cattle and the infested cattle have the lib- 

 erty of the whole township and, if allowed to exercise this liberty, the in- 

 fection will gradually spread. 



The infection in Southwest Missouri is not so scattered but that an 

 inspector can locate and quarantine every infected farm. He will even 

 have time to return to these farms occasionally to sec if the necessary 

 dipping has been done to disinfect the cattle. By following the plan of 

 quarantining individual farms, the spread of the infection has been suc- 

 cessfully controlled. The owner of the infested cattle has by this metliod 

 an opportunity to get from the inspector all the information he needs in 

 the disinfection of his cattle and land, and the restrictions on the move- 

 ment of a bunch of infested cattle brings the owner face to face with the 

 necessity of getting rid of the infection. 



For the coming year I recommend : 



(i) That the Board adopt the Federal Quarantine Line as it was 

 placed last year. 



(2) That the enforcement of the quarantine relating to the interstate 

 movement of cattle be left as much as possible to the Federal inspectors 

 and that these inspectors be authorized by the Board to enforce necessary 

 local quarantine within this State. 



(3) That the State lend its assistance, when necessary, to the Federal 

 inspectors, but that our main effort should be to eradicate the infection 

 from the areas within this State that have heretofore been considered per- 

 manently infected territory. 



(4) That the State Veterinarian appoint only one inspector and locate 

 him at some point in Southwest Missouri convenient to the infested area. 



(^5) That the Board place a quarantine on Thayer township. 



The reason for advising that Thayer township be placed in quaian- 

 tine is that practically all of this township is infested, and there is usually 

 only a very small number of cattle in the township that anyone cares to 

 move. The vacant lots surrounding the shipping pens at Thayer arc in- 

 fested with fever ticks every year, and I consider it impossible for an^'onc 

 to drive a bunch of cattle from outside of the township and get them into 

 the shipping pens during the summer and fall without exposing the cattle 

 to the infested ground surrounding the pen. The shipment of cattle from 



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