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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



the British government applied the same restrictions to sheep as to 

 cattle. 



The same disease has been the means of shutting our sheep out of the 

 markets of France and other European countries. Now we are getting 

 sheep scab under our control, and with a few more years of intelligent 

 work shall be free from it. 



Much surprise has been expressed in some quarters with reference to 

 a suggestion recently made by me that it might be well for us to consider 

 whether the time had not arrived for following the example of Great 

 Britain and entirely shutting out foreign live stock from our territory. "We 

 still have representatives of that same class of men who could see no narm 



English Coach Stallion, owned by Truman Brothers, Bushnell, Illinois, and i-hown 

 at the Iowa State Fair, 1902. 



to come to us from nursing pleuropneumonia among our cattle twenty 

 years ago, and who are equally positive today that no harm can come to 

 us from any other disease. But it seems to me that with a stock of the 

 finest animals in the world, with the largest number of animals that any 

 country has ever accumulated, with a fabulous amount of wealth invested 

 in these animals — an amount unexampled in the history of the world — 

 it seems to me, I repeat, that we should take stringent measures to 

 insure these animals and this wealth from the one danger to which they 

 be exposed. 



