PROCEEDINGS IOWA STATE FAIR MANAGERS ASSN. 45 



TWO O'CLOCK P. M., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1922. 



President Estel : Mr. Corey has arranged for Dr. Peter Malcolm, 

 our State Veterinarian, to speak to us a few moments in regard to 

 the tuberculin test requirements and cholera immune requirements 

 for fairs. 



Dr. Malcolm: Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen — There seems to be some 

 misunderstanding or some complaint about the tuberculin testing of 

 cattle for exhibition purposes. Two years ago we put this in force with 

 the idea of protecting the exhibitor against tuberculosis, because we 

 found cattle that were exhibited at fairs that did not have tuberculosis 

 and when brought back home and put into accredited herds a great 

 many reacted. Therefore it stood my department in hand to see if we 

 could not formulate some protection to the exhibitor. This we did. We 

 made it with the state fair and with the county fairs, for the simple 

 reason that if it was a good thing for the state fair it was certainly 

 a good thing for the county fairs, because the county fairs help make up 

 the state fair and vice versa. 



Now the question arises as to whether this can be put into effect and 

 if there is any protection to you secretaries in enforcing this. You 

 can enforce this rule. We enforce it at the state fair and have no 

 trouble. To illustrate, the first year we put it in operation at the state 

 fair just three animals came there without a certificate. Two of them 

 were baby beef, and a nurse cow. So we tested these three animals and 

 they passed the tuberculin test and we let them remain on the ground. 

 Last year there wasn't an animal exhibited at the state fair but had 

 its health certificate with it, and only one offered to exhibit without one. 

 So we built up our state fair and I believe it will build up your county 

 fairs, because the exhibitor and breeder is wide-awake to the fact that 

 the mere fact of having tuberculosis in his herd is detrimental to him, 

 and we must give him that protection. 



Now as to the penalty. This rule was adopted by the Commission of 

 Animal Health, approved by the Executive Council of the State of Iowa, 

 consequently it becomes a law of the State of Iowa. In Section 19, 

 Chapter 287, Acts of the 38th General Assembly, or in the Compiled 

 Code Section 175, reads as follows: "Penalty. Any person or persons 

 violating any of the provisions of this act or any of the rules and reg- 

 ulations adopted under the authority of this act, except as otherwise 

 stated, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a 

 fine of not less than $100 or not more than $500 or by imprisonment in 

 the county jail for not less than thirty days, nor more than six months." 

 Now you naturally say, "who is this penalty to be attached to?" Every 

 party interested in it, the exhibitor as well as the secretary. Any of 

 these parties who violate this is responsible for the penalty, it makes no 

 difference whether it be the exhibitor or the secretary, or board of di- 

 rectors. 



Now the method by which you can handle it is very easy. When a 

 man makes an entry for exhibition see that he follows that with a 



