ELEVENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VI 315 



St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 21, 1910. 

 Professor C. F. Curtiss, 



Dean and .Director, Ames, Iowa. 



Dear Sir. — I have just received your letter of September 16th on my re- 

 turn from a veterinary association meeting in the far west. 



Our laws provide that cattle, sheep or swine coming into Minnesota 

 for feeding, breeding or dairy purposes must come with proper certificates 

 of health so far as infectious diseases are concerned. It has been the 

 custom for several years during state fairs to have a field veterinarian 

 at the fair grounds when stock is coming in. It it his duty to ask those 

 in charge for their certificates of inspection. In case they have no in- 

 spection, then he is expected to make this inspection before the hogs go 

 into their pens. This inspection is free of charge to owners. 



In case of stock leaving our state fair for fairs in other states which 

 require such certificates, our field veterinarian (sanitary board employee) 

 inspects stock for owners free of charge. 



I may say that a telegram from Secretary Simpson was received at my 

 office during my absence and referred to Dr. S. H.Ward, secretary of our 

 sanitary board. He understood this telegram, a copy of which is before 

 me, to be a general sort of question asking for general provisions of our 

 law. Some time before this he had received a letter from your state 

 veterinarian, Dr. Koto, asking whether stock coming into the Iowa state 

 fair and going on to Minnesota must be inspected for admission to Minne- 

 sota. In reply to this Dr. Ward gave a general statement concerning the 

 provision of our law which, however, refers specifically to stock for feed- 

 ing, breeding or dairy purposes. I presume that this was the letter to 

 which you refer. 



It has never been our policy to be arbitrary with exhibition of stock or 

 to bar such stock from admission to the state fair or to the fair grounds. 

 In case such stock comes in without such certificates, they are inspected 

 by men in the employ of the state, as already explained, free of expense 

 to the owners. This is simply a general application for an old provi- 

 sion of our law intended to protect Minnesota from the importation of 

 infectious diseases. 



Yours truly, 



M. H. REYNOLDS. 



Mr. Curtiss explained the terms of the National Draft Horse 

 Breeders' Futurity for yearling colts proposed by the Chicago Live 

 Stock World, such futurity to be held at the 1911 Iowa State Fair 

 and Exposition providing the fair management would add $500.00 

 to the purse as follows : $200.00 for Percherons, and $100.00 each 

 for the Clydesdale, Shire and Belgian divisions. A motion to ac- 

 cept the proposition of the Chicago Live Stock World was unani- 

 mously adopted and $500.00 appropriated for said show as above 

 indicated, it being understood that the classification and rules gov- 

 erning said show must conform to the rules and regulations of the 

 horse department. 



