638 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



suppose I would really need the information, but I was not there much 

 too soon. I had not much more than gotten home when I found we were 

 In trouble. 



The total number of diseased cattle in Iowa to date is 693; total number 

 of hogs, 936; total number of sheep, 11. We have no goats; this is not 

 much of a country for billygoats. In Cedar county there were seven herds, 

 in Jackson four, in Jones five, in Clinton one, in Iowa eight. In some in- 

 stances we could not get the people to realize how serious foot and mouth 

 disease was, and how dilficult to control, until it had spread to some 

 other farms. Most of the exposures took place before we had established 

 ainy quarantine, and, in fact, before we knew that we had any foot and 

 inouth disease in the state. In one instance a man took eleven head of 

 cattle home just a few days before the quarantine was established on 

 the diseased herd. This was in Iowa county. That man never admitted 

 that he took cattle out of that pasture until his cattle at home were all 

 diseased. Wouldn't you have thought that any good citizen, when hw 

 knew that the herd was diseased from which he took the eleven head, 

 would have said, in fairness to us, the government authorities, and your 

 own authorities: "Come over and quarantine me; I am afraid I have 

 got it."? When his cattle were all diseased, he couldn't very well stand 

 out against it any longer. In one instance the hogs got through the 

 fence; and there has not been a single direct exposure to any one of these 

 outbreaks but produced the disease. At Oxford Junction it jumped five 

 miles, and we didn't know how. The man to whose place it had jumped 

 was a very reputable citizen, and he said he hadn't been away from the 

 farm. We found out later that they bought a puppy from the farm that 

 had the disease, and his boy went down and got it, and that is the only 

 connection we have between the two farms. Either the boy or the puppy 

 carried enough infection to produce the disease. 



At Tipton they killed 149 cattle and 389 hogs; total appraisals on those 

 three farms, $17,064.72. That is where we struck Matthews & Sons' two 

 carloads of steers weighing 1,650 pounds, fitted for the Royal and the 

 International; and in another field we struck forty-nine head of steers 

 that weighed between 1,200 and 1,300 pounds, all on the Matthews farm. 

 We first found his hogs infected. They were treated with Great Western 

 serum No. 44 and virus No. 41, with no other known exposures. We 

 killed his hogs. These cattle were on different parts of the farm; his 

 wife was taking care of part of them. We recommended all precautions 

 that we could, but we had reason to believe that the young man Matthews 

 did not deal with this disease as he should; and the first thing we knew, 

 it showed up definitely in the forty-nine head of lighter steers, and they 

 and the show steers were watered at the two ends of the trough which 

 extended under the fence. His attorney wrote that there had been no 

 exposure to the show cattle, and I simply answered him that there was 

 only one more effective exposure than the watering trough, and that 

 would be direct inoculation. 



There were two farms there out of seven on which the Great Western 

 serum was used, developed the disease up to date. 



