560 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



On March 11th, after consulting Gov. B. F. Carroll, I started 

 for Weyburn, Sask., taking with me Dr. C. H. Stange, Dean of the 

 Veterinary Department at Ames. On arrival a.t Weyburn, March 

 ]8th, we discovered that the carcasses of the nineteen hoi^es that 

 had been condemned by the veterinarian in the employ of the 

 Canadian Government, and killed by the mounted police, were 

 still in a good state of preservation covered with waste at the 

 nuisance ground at the edge of town. We telephoned the veter- 

 inarian in charge of sanitary work in the Province of Regina 

 asking permission to hold a post mortem, which favor he could 

 not grant us without consulting the Veterinary Director General 

 at Ottawa. After some delay Dr. Rutherford granted us permis- 

 sion to make the post mortem, providing certain of his sanitary 

 force were present to witness same. 



At the end of the second day all was ready for the post-mortem, 

 which we proceeded to make. We posted six of the animals 

 finding no evidence whatever of the existence of glanders. Cana- 

 dian authorities conceding it was unnecessary to follow the post 

 mortem further, it was abandoned with the statement on our 

 part that we found no evidence of glanders, and nothing in the 

 history of the horses to warrant their destruction. 



The original Beischel shipment numbered fifty-seven head. The 

 remaining thirty-eight were held in quarantine for retest; this 

 being the third test it was not applied until thirty days after the 

 retest that was made by the Canadian authorities. On this second 

 retest, nineteen that had shown suspicious records in the previous 

 test, passed an ideal test and were released, as were all others ex- 

 cepting five. These were finally retested and released, so there 

 were no more animals killed after our visit there. 



The whole history of the shipment of horses, beginning with 

 the fact that they were purchased on farms around the town of 

 Carpenter, Mitchell county, Iowa, and before being shipped were 

 subjected to the mallein test at the hands of Dr. J. H. McLeod, 

 Charles City, Iowa, who is registered with the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, and given authority to make tests on shipmients to 

 Canada, to the final release of the last horse from quarantine, 

 shows that the killing of the nineteen horses was entirely unwar- 

 ranted, as their test in Iowa by Dr. McLeod showed no suspicion 

 whatever of the existence of glanders in any animal in the ship- 

 ment, and their final history until all were released, also showed 

 no animal presenting any clinical symptoms of glanders. 



