FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IX. 637 



open market for slaughtering fat stock. Before the government would 

 make that release, we had to agree o place thirteen counties as a health 

 border around the six counties in which the disease existed. Those 

 counties I will always remember, I think, because we have had an awful 

 roar from them. They couldn't understand why they should be quaran- 

 tined when they didn't have the disease. But I am telling you that I have 

 had to do what the federal authorities asked me to do, or else they 

 would slap it on Iowa and say, "Take care of yourself." So we were mov- 

 ing every way and doing the best we could to get the release as fast as 

 possible. Only yesterday we received Amendment No. 7 from Washington, 

 which permits feeding and breeding stock to come from clean states into 

 certain yards, and go back again into clean territory. That will relieve 

 one big loss in Iowa. The Sioux City yards had a large feeder business, 

 and they were still held out of about half of it; so they were delighted 

 yesterday when they got news that that was relieved. They can now take 

 in feeders from the West into certain yards set apart for that business; 

 and can send them back again through the states that are quarantined 

 against us for all other purposes — Nebraska and South Dakota. These two 

 states together take about half of the Sioux City feeder business. 



The states that are in bad condition now are Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, 

 Pennsylvania, New York and Kentucky. I have some statistics that I will 

 give you, so you will know what it has amounted to up to date. Of 

 course, you all know what it has amounted to in your individual cases, 

 and the part of it that we always regret is the individual loss. 



There is one thing wrong about quarantine procedure. All over this 

 country, all quarantine measures and all restrictions of that kind are 

 supposed to be placed with a view to the greatest good to the greatest 

 number. There are men who have been fixed under this quarantine so 

 they had no market for their hogs, and the hogs were ready, and the 

 cholera had even broken out in their breeding herds on their farms, and 

 they had no escape. The man who loses his hogs under these conditions 

 ought to be entitled to an appraisal, the same as the man on whose 

 premises we find the disease, and we appraise and kill his stock. 



As I said before, the disease. has been found in the six counties that 

 I named. The total number of diseased herds has been twenty-six, and 

 those come down to an individual animal in one or two instances, that 

 was on the premises with the herd where the disease developed. The 

 total appraisals to date amount to $53,824.62; estimated total cost of 

 burial — that is, the digging of the trenches and the filling, $1,072.75. 

 Added to that, of course, is the price of disinfectants and the work of 

 disinfecting farms, and the lime. As high as thirty barrels of lime have 

 been used for one grave. Those trenches are dug eight feet wide and 

 eight feet deep, and a foot in length for each bovine that is to be buried; 

 and we allow that the hogs and sheep, if there be any, will fit into the 

 crevices. 



At the earliest possible moment, I ran over into Indiana, to see the 

 disease, so that I would know what it looked like, and to see the measures 

 adopted by the government while the work was going on. I did not 



