472 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



No. 18. Are they well supplied with funds as the result of the sale of 

 this season's crops? 

 Answer. Crops unsold. 



No. 19. What is the sentiment regarding farmers' co-operative move- 

 ments? 

 Answer. Favorable. 



No. 20. What is the general effect of the recent drop in grain prices? 

 Answer. No effect. 



No. 21. Do the banks appear to have funds to lend and at what rates 

 of interest? 

 Answer. Yes — 6 to 8 percent. 

 No. 22. Are the banks well loaned up? 

 Answer. Yes. 



No. 25. Have the number of individual savings accounts increased or 

 decreased? 

 Answer. Increased. 



No. 26. If the sentiment is against the excess profits tax, what sub- 

 stitute is preferred. 

 Answer. Various substitutes. 



No. 27. What is the sentiment regarding the sales tax? 

 Answer. Divided." 



SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS IN OUR DAIRY HERDS. 



As the attitude of the commissioner and this department toward the 

 enactment and enforcement of laws having for their object the eradica- 

 tion of Tuberculosis among our farm animals has been attacked without 

 warrant or reason, I desire to have my position understood. 



I have used the Tuberculin test for more than thirty years in my own 

 herd for the purpose of eliminating those animals that were shown by 

 the test to be affected. I have encouraged and worked for the enactment 

 of every law offered in the Legislature during that time, having for its 

 purpose the control or eradication of this disease. As proof of this, I 

 herewith submit a portion of my last year's report which was written 

 about July 15, 1919. It reads as follows, and I feel can be easily under- 

 stood: 



"The Suppression of Tuberculosis 



In my opinion there was no act of the 38th General Assembly of more 

 importance to the people of our Commonwealth than the law controlling 

 and suppressing diseases of domestic animals. In the cattle industry, 

 Iowa admittedly, taking all things into consideration, surpasses all other 

 states because of the number of pure bred herds within her borders. Be- 

 sides this, she stands almost alone in the production of hogs. 



