FIFTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART IX. 639 



We had this modification in the quarantine: First, 78 counties were 

 permitted to ship to outside markets November 30th. On December 7th 

 we got another modification that the thirteen border counties around the 

 disease were permitted to ship to market on special permit issued by 

 a veterinarian who was a joint employe of the state and the bureau. 

 The state pays $5 a day, and the bureau $5 a month for these men, 

 and that is working fairly well now, although these men cannot reach 

 the inspections as fast as they are being called for. Yesterday morn- 

 ing we wired for eleven additional men to add to that force, but 

 we have not yet got any confirmation from Washington. Their man 

 wired in the proposal, and I followed it this morning with a telegram say- 

 ing that the necessity for these men was very urgent at this time. I have 

 not had an answer yet. The next modification we are looking for (I have 

 a communication from the bureau today that hints at it) will be the 

 entire release for all purposes of the seventy-eight counties), the privilege 

 of the other thirteen to ship without examination, and the examination 

 work to be closed down to the six counties in which the disease has 

 existed. I might say that this week will see not only all the known 

 diseased herds up to this date killed and under the ground, but the dis- 

 ihfection of the premises. 



I think this is the fifth outbreak in this country. Our government has 

 followed the stamping-out process. It looks sometimes as if this outbreak 

 had gotten too large; it is going to cost so much money; but I am satis- 

 fied yet that if they can get an early eradication of the disease, it will 

 be worth untold millions to the United States to still have our stock above 

 foot and mouth suspicion. 



It has been difiicult to get the railroad companies and their agents, 

 the express companies, the live stock dealers and the people to all under- 

 stand the different restrictions put upon them. We have had some trouble, 

 but there have been very few shipments that have been made in violation 

 of quarantine. I heard of one today that went to Keithsburg, 111. That 

 is a direct violation, because at this date there is nothing leaves Iowa 

 for any purpose except for immediate slaughter and they are not per- 

 mitted to go east of Chicago alive. Horses, of course, are not included 

 in this quarantine; poultry is not included. 



If this disease had come in the summer time, when the shotes w^ere 

 growing and the steers out on the grass, and practically nothing ready 

 for market, it would not have caused any hardship; but it came at the 

 regular time for our shipments; and how did these conditions find us? 

 They found us the greatest producing territory of live stock on earth, 

 absolutely dependent, you might say no market of our own. We furnish 

 our own killing plants — a dozen or more in Iowa, with a goodly number 

 of hogs and a few cattle; we furnish a lot of stock for slaughter in St. 

 Paul, in Omaha, in St. Joseph, in Kansas City, and in St. Louis; and 

 after doing all that we furnish forty per cent of the entire business of 

 the Chicago yards. Now, it does look to me as if we are big enough to 

 have our own market, and you meat producers are here to see what you 

 can do with your resolutions and your influence to better your conditions 

 in Iowa. Suppose you get busy and create somewhere in Iowa a market 



