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Out of twenty-one or twenty-two head he had seven head left. He 
had been holding on for six weeks and had exposed all the horses 
in the neighborhood to glanders. If he had reported it when he 
first noticed it in the horses to the state veterinarian, had them 
tested and cleaned them up it would not have amounted to any- 
thing and would have stopped the glanders right there." 
Mr. Roberts made the following suggestions: "I want to drop 
one thought in regard to preventing the spread of hog cholera. 
I think it would be a good idea for this association to make a reso- 
lution that this thing be handled by the state, that it be handled 
by a veterinarian and have a man in each township who understands 
the nature of the disease to look after his six miles square. If it 
breaks out have him informed immediately and if he is certain it 
is hog cholera he should notify the state veterinarian in his distirct 
and the state veterinarian make an examination. Then if he found 
it to be cholera to proceed to treat with the serum all hogs within a 
distance of one mile in any direction from the infected herd so as 
to establish a quarantine and check the disease. I don't think it 
would be out of the way for this association to adopt such a resolu- 
tion. We have to get after the thing so we can do something. The 
Iowa Swine Breeders will have to push the thing if we get anything. 
I would like to ask Dr. McNeill if we could not do something in 
that line." 
Dr. McNeill: "That plan is all right, but we have to start back 
farther than that. We have to have a state veterinary board first. 
We have a state board in conjunction with the state board of 
health. It has been the experience of other states who tried to 
deal with it in that way that they have been unsuccessful. The 
state veterinarian must work in conjunction with the different live 
stock organizations of the state and in order to do that they must 
have a non-salaried board of supervision. It should be something 
like the laws of Minnesota or Pennsylvania. We do not have the 
kind of laws in this state regarding that and can't bring it about. 
Nor could we establish a board of veterinarians and do it, but it 
must be composed of good broad-minded stock men and agricultural 
men. Let them be non-salaried for a board of that kind and have 
one or two veterinarians on that board and then employ a state 
veterinarian and as many assistsant state veterinarians as necessary 
and take it out of politics as nearly as you can. Then you have a 
board that can ask the Legislature for money and get what you 
want. That is why Minnesota gets the money, Th^-t is the way 
